BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250408T135629 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Behind the Curve: Rainbows and the Science and Culture of Color DESCRIPTION:We have many significant books from the history of our understanding of rainbows and color theory\, from the writings of scholar Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham to Isaac Newton’s 1704 Opticks. Rainbows appear across the spectrum of our collections\, and this exhibit includes a handwritten illuminated manuscript\, practical color manuals of the industrial age\, contemporary artists’ and children’s books\, and more from our vast holdings. \n\nRainbows have captivated people for all of recorded history. It’s hard not to think of them as physical objects\, but they are really just distorted images of the sun\, positioned around the viewer’s head. They require someone to perceive them to exist\, and thus have much in common with colors and color theory in general. And\, like colors\, they are about relationships: of one color next to another\, and of colors and the people who see them. The rainbow has had many different cultural interpretations over the years\, and most recently has become synonymous with gay pride\, appearing all over each June.\n\nHatcher Gallery Exhibit Room Hours:\nSunday\, 2-8pm\nMonday-Thursday\, 9am-8pm\nFriday\, 9am-4pm\nSaturday\, 11am-5pm UID:134798-21875165@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134798 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room (1st floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250407T111911 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Carlo Vitale Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Carlo Vitale is a distinguished Michigan-based artist whose vibrant contributions to the Detroit art scene have flourished since the 1970s. A native of Detroit\, Vitale's work is celebrated as part of the second generation of the Cass Corridor Art Movement\, Detroit’s first avante garde. His art draws inspiration from the sweeping vistas of farmland seen from above\, the intricate patterns of quilt-making\, the dynamic energy of cityscapes\, and the rich tapestry of daily life. Vitale eloquently characterizes his mesmerizing oil paintings and prints as “kinetic\, metaphysical abstractions\,” inviting viewers to engage with the depth and vitality of his creative vision.\n\nVitale received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Masters of Fine Arts from Wayne State University in Detroit. His work can be found in many collections including The Whitney Museum of Fine Art in New York\, The Detroit Institute of Art\, Cranbrook Art Museum\, Wayne State University Collection\, University of Michigan Museum of Art and corporate\, hospital\, and private collections throughout the country. UID:134757-21874897@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134757 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,Visual Arts LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - NCRC Galleries CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250418T112901 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Facilitator Training and Certification: Council Practice with Snap Inc. DESCRIPTION:June 5 - 6\, 2025 (You must participate for both days\, June 5 and 6\, to receive certification)\n9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. ET\, both days\nMichigan Ross\, Ross Building\, 701 Tappan\, Ann Arbor\nOpen to all\, $50 registration fee required\n\nAbout the training:\nJoin us for an extraordinary chance to participate in a free two-day facilitator training and certification in the Council method as practiced at Snap Inc. This special opportunity is available to CPO community members with training led by experienced facilitators from Snap Inc. Participants will engage in learning how to skillfully facilitate this valuable listening and storytelling practice that has been part of the DNA at Snap Inc. since its founding. Council gathers team members in a circle for storytelling as a way to connect\, listen\, and meet one another as humans\, and to scale empathy and foster deeper connections. It is the way that Snap Inc. builds an inclusive community and creates high-performing teams.\n\nIn this certification training\, you will:\n- Learn the basic forms of Council and skill-building activities for facilitation\n- Foster deeper connections with those around you\n- Practice active listening to cultivate empathy\n- Develop your capacity to skillfully bring Council to communities where you want to foster belonging\n\nQuestions? Email cpo-events@umich.edu. UID:135114-21876325@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135114 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Center For Positive Organizations,Training LOCATION:Ross School of Business CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250502T131729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Michigan Cosmology Summer School DESCRIPTION:Summer school will run the week of June 2nd UID:135337-21876709@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135337 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Science LOCATION:Central Campus Classroom Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250211T122734 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Redefining the Crown DESCRIPTION:In Winter 2025\, the Lane Hall exhibit space will feature a portraiture series titled Redefining the Crown showcasing the powerful stories of six Black breast cancer survivors.\n\nBased on a photo essay by U-M Faculty Versha Pleasant (MD/MPH) and Ava Purkiss (PhD) in Medicine at Michigan\, this exhibition examines the cultural and personal significance of hair within Black communities\, particularly through the lens of breast cancer treatment and recovery. The term \"crown\" is deeply symbolic in Black culture\, signifying beauty\, strength\, and identity. The featured photo essay by photographer Tafari Stevenson-Howard captures the intimate journeys of Ann Chatman\, Tanisha Kennedy\, Felecia McDaniel\, Shantell Elaine McCoy\, Tamara Lynn Myles\, and Veleria Banks.\n\nThrough their narratives and portraits\, the exhibit examines how these women have navigated the profound impact of hair loss caused by chemotherapy\, inviting the audience to witness their stories with radical empathy. It explores the cultural pride and personal identity intricately tied to their hair\, and how these elements are redefined amidst their battles with breast cancer.\n\nThe exhibit will be on view from January 21\, 2025 to August 8\, 2025. This exhibition is presented with support from IRWG\, the Department of Women's and Gender Studies\, and Michigan Medicine. \n\nLocated on the first floor of Lane Hall (204 S. State Street)\, the Exhibit Space is free and open to the public\, M-F\, 9am-4pm. UID:129602-21864153@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129602 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:african american,Art,institute for research on women and gender,women,Women's And Gender Studies LOCATION:Lane Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240130T121550 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:A Gathering DESCRIPTION:Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.\n \nA Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. \n \nAs a free\, public museum\, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition\, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present\, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges\, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations\, race\, gender\, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.\n \nThis collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals\, as a museum\, and as a society\, connected to one another across space and experience.\n \nSo gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings\, to discuss their takes\, to learn\, to disagree. Gather to relax\, make a friend\, drink a coffee\, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full\, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.\n \nCurated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn\, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n  UID:107870-21818135@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,Museum,Staff,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250529T110505 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Beyond Survival DESCRIPTION:Join us for Beyond Survival\, an exhibition of works by incarcerated artists in Michigan presented by PCAP co-founder Janie Paul and the Flint Institute of the Arts. The exhibit opens May 30th and runs through September 14th. \n\nThe pieces span nearly 30 years\, many of them having been featured in our Annual Exhibition.\n\n\"Through drawings\, paintings\, and sculptures made with simple materials\, artists expose the harsh realities of incarceration while imagining life beyond prison. These works reveal a longing for home and family\, joy and beauty\, connections to nature\, flights of the imagination\, and journeys toward freedom—acts of creation made despite and in direct response to carceral conditions.\" UID:135894-21877386@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135894 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Exhibition,Incarceration LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Graphics Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250304T131847 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T163000 SUMMARY:Other:Moth Eden DESCRIPTION:Explore \"Moth Eden\,\" an evocative art exhibit by Anne Erlewine\, running from April 19 to July 6\, 2025. ‘Moth Eden’ is a series of works exploring the relationship between the sacred reverence of the female form depicted as landscape and the conditioned tension of objectification contrasted by omission through eclipsing desire with the natural essence of bloom and nectar as it pertains to moth sustenance.\n\nAnne Erlewine\, an artist from Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, cultivated her artistic talents from an early age\, inspired by her fine artist grandmother. Her creative journey was further developed at the University of Michigan\, where she studied art and writing. UID:133414-21873023@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133414 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Free,In Person,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240130T121551 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism DESCRIPTION:Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison)\, this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art\, 1650-1850.\n \nIn recent times\, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections\, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries\, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works\, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.\n \nPieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet\, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden\, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  \n \nIn this online exhibition\, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery\, which will open in early 2021\, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. \n \nBy challenging our own practice\, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display\, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles\, and fails to settle for\, simple narratives. \n \n“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed\, so ornate\, so planned\, they call attention to themselves\; arrest us with intentionality and purpose\, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” \n \n— Toni Morrison\n\nLead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the U-M Arts Initiative\, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.\n  UID:84303-21621614@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,European,Exhibition,History,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - European and American Decorative Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250421T113230 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Bloody Work: Lexington and Concord 1775 DESCRIPTION:The William L. Clements Library is pleased to announce a forthcoming exhibition in recognition of the 250th Anniversary of the military hostilities that began the American Revolutionary War. The Battles of Lexington and Concord are firmly established in American memory as the culmination of a range of governmental\, political\, economic\, and social tensions that amplified in the decade leading up to 1775. In this exhibit\, visitors will have the opportunity to see original historical manuscript letters\, documents\, newspapers\, and artwork that reveal aspects of the bloody work of Empire and individual alike in April 1775.\n\nAmong the items on display will be Commander in Chief of the British Army\, General Thomas Gage's draft orders for the Concord Expedition\, April 18\, 1775\; a bundle of letters collected by former Sons of Liberty supporter Dr. Benjamin Church\, which he secretly turned over to British Army intelligence\; letters by Silas Deane\, John Hancock\, and Rachel Revere\; and much more.\n\nOpen weekdays from 12-4 pm. UID:134875-21875553@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134875 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,Ann Arbor,Exhibit,Exhibition,Free,history,libraries,Library LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260401T103514 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T130000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Learn to Meditate in 3 days DESCRIPTION:Make meditation part of your goal to strengthen your mental well-being. Discover three core practices—meditation\, rejuvenation\, and inner connect in just three session.\n\nMeditation is a mindful journey for regulating your mind. It’s like a mental workout\, training the mind to focus on a single thought amid the 60\,000 that pass through daily. With 3 core practices it cultivates effortless concentration\, heightened awareness\, and presence in the moment\, allowing a shift from thinking to feeling. Meditation also leads to a deeper state of relaxation\, regulating the stress response and promoting numerous health benefits.\n\nThe session will be guided by a trainer via Zoom meeting for all 3 days from noon to 1 p.m. All U-M students\, faculty\, and staff are welcome to join at no cost. No prior experience with meditation is required.\n\nEvent Details\n*When: Every month for 3 days (attending all 3 sessions is recommended)*\n\nThe session is Remote over Zoom and upon registration you will have the Zoom MeetingId and Passcode\nSee Related Links for registration\n\nThis wellness program is coordinated by Information Technology and Services (ITS) Teaching & Learning\, and is provided at no cost by heartfulness.org.\n\nJoin the MCommunity group for email updates – Meditation for wellness UID:128708-21865141@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/128708 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual,Well-being LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250908T080307 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Watcher of the Sky: Making and Remaking the Detroit Observatory DESCRIPTION:The Detroit Observatory was once a hub of astronomical discovery that put the University of Michigan on the map as a world-class research institution. A century later\, it was an abandoned building with an uncertain future. From cornerstone to keystone\, from the first director to the people who saved it from destruction\, explore the life of a historic observatory 170 years in the making.\n\n\"Watcher of the Sky\" is being developed by student docents at the Detroit Observatory. They are currently collaborating with a museum design firm on the final version of the exhibit\, which will debut in fall 2025. We invite you to check out what they've done so far.\n\nPresented by the Judy and Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory\, part of the Bentley Historical Library.\n\n\"Watcher of the Sky\" is now on display at the Detroit Observatory (1398 Ann Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109). View the exhibit during the Observatory's open hours: \nThursdays\, 12-5 pm\nFridays\, 12-5 pm UID:135958-21877543@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135958 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomers,astronomy,bentley historical library,bentley library,Education,educational,Exhibition,free,history,Museum,museums,Science,U-m History,university history,university of michigan history LOCATION:Detroit Observatory CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250521T142953 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Deep Learning-Assisted Approximate Bayesian Inference with Applications to Astronomy DESCRIPTION:Approximate Bayesian methods provide a principled means for inference in settings in which exact posterior inference is intractable. In this work\, I present methods for variational inference\, an approach to approximate Bayesian inference in which an approximation to the posterior is selected by numerical optimization. The approaches and analysis primarily consider amortized variational inference\, a class of techniques that leverages deep learning to obtain a mapping from data instances to variational approximations of the posterior. First\, I present SMC-Wake\, a likelihood-based approach for minimization of the forward KL divergence. This algorithm uses Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) samplers to construct inexpensive particle approximations for training an inference network. Next\, I present a study of neural posterior estimation (NPE) and its objective function\, the expected forward KL divergence. This likelihood-free approach to amortized inference averages over large amounts of simulated data from the model to learn mappings from data instances to variational approximations of the posterior. I present an analysis of this approach from the perspective of neural tangent kernel (NTK) theory. Under certain conditions on the variational family and neural network mapping\, I show that NPE optimizes a convex functional and reliably converges to a unique solution in the asymptotic infinite-width limit\, despite the highly nonconvex nature of neural network optimization landscapes. Finally\, I extend these results to posit a novel class of expressive variational families based on linear combinations of basis functions\, and propose a procedure to adaptively fit these basis functions to parameterize complex distributions. When targeting the forward KL divergence within this framework\, the objective is convex in the variational parameters\, but nevertheless allows for practitioners to fit highly multimodal variational approximations to the posterior. We conclude with applications of these methods to difficult problems in astronomy\, such as redshift estimation from astronomical images\, and the task of detecting blended astronomical spectra. UID:135773-21877250@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135773 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation LOCATION:West Hall - 438 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250521T102816 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T160000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Rigorous Derivation of the Wave Kinetic Equation for \beta-FPUT System DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nWhile the WKE has been rigorously derived for the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation in dimensions d\ge 2 and for the Majda–McLaughlin–Tabak model in d=1\, there is still lack of rigorous justification for the \beta-FPUT model whose sinusoidal dispersion and unconserved frequency shift pose additional obstacles. In this thesis\, we establish the WKE for a reduced evolution equation\, removing the nonresonant terms\, from the one‑dimensional \beta-FPUT chain. We work in the kinetic limit N \to \infty and \beta \to 0 under the scaling laws \beta=N^{-\gamma} with 0<\gamma<1. The result holds up to the sub‑kinetic time scale T=N^{-\epsilon}\min(N\, N^{5/4\gamma})=N^{-\epsilon}T_{kin}^{5/8} for \epsilon\ll1\, where T_{kin} represents the kinetic (thermalization) timescale. We also prove a sufficient upper bound for the nonlinearity parameter $\beta$ that allows one to perform the canonical transformation on the original evolution equation. This upper bound suggests a scaling between \beta and N\, which governs the importance of the non-resonant terms in the original equation. By applying the symplectic integrator method\, we further develop numerical studies on the \beta-FPUT model\, comparing the magnitudes of resonant and nonresonant sums across various nonlinearity strengths and particle numbers to verify the predicted \beta-threshold. UID:135766-21877246@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135766 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Graduate,Graduate Students,Mathematics LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250522T132453 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Lawrence Sklar: A Celebration of Life DESCRIPTION:3–5 pm Thursday 5 June 2025 \nThe Kuenzel Room. First Floor of the Michigan Union\n530 South State Street Ann Arbor\n\nZoom link details below. Password REQUIRED: 12345\nhttps://umich.zoom.us/j/9930741332?omn=95613966276\n\nParking: There is a University lot with visitor spaces on Thompson between Jefferson and Wiliam and a large parking structure with entrances on Maynard and Thompson between William and Liberty. UID:135570-21876955@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135570 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:philosophy LOCATION:Michigan Union - Kuenzel Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250513T144304 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Webinar: The Great Bay Eelgrass Resilience Project: Lessons Learned Doing Cutting Edge Science with Broad Community Input DESCRIPTION:The Eelgrass Resilience Project was a three-year collaborative research effort designed to bridge science and management and address eelgrass habitat loss in the Great Bay Estuary\, NH. The estuary is currently classified as nitrogen impaired\, primarily due to significant declines in eelgrass (Zostera marina). Despite more than a decade of discussion\, uncertainty remains about the factors affecting eelgrass health and the role of nitrogen reduction—creating challenges for effective action.\n\nThis project brought together hydrodynamics\, biogeochemistry\, and ecology to explore how factors such as water residence time\, nitrogen loading\, in-situ nitrogen processing\, sediment dynamics\, and light availability influence eelgrass resilience. The team assessed spatial trends across the estuary and conducted a cutting-edge experiment to measure nitrogen processing along a flow path through an eelgrass meadow. In this webinar\, we’ll present our scientific methods\, key findings\, and project deliverables. We’ll also share insights from working with a Project Advisory Committee that connected our team with municipal and state decision-makers\, as well as national experts who provided real-time peer feedback throughout the project. UID:135627-21877020@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135627 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250605T152019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2025 Michael Boehnke Distinguished Visiting Scholar Award Activities DESCRIPTION: UID:135736-21877206@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135736 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Hussey Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250506T152516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Michigan Medicine 3rd Annual Pride Month Keynote and Celebration DESCRIPTION:Please join us for Michigan Medicine’s 3rd Annual Pride Month Keynote and Celebration – “Unstoppable Pride: Thriving in the Face of Adversity”\n\nThis year\, we are honored to welcome Dr. Jennifer Potter – Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-Chair of the Fenway Institute – as our keynote speaker. Dr. Potter is a nationally recognized leader in women’s health and gender equity\, and a pioneer in advancing clinical care and medical education for sexual and gender minority (SGM) communities. Her keynote address will explore the critical intersections of education\, trauma-informed care\, and inclusive practice in health care delivery.\n\nWe invite all faculty\, staff\, learners\, and community members to attend this important event as we celebrate Pride\, foster belonging\, and advance equity in health care together. \n\nThis event is generously sponsored by the Office of Patient Experience and the Office of Faculty Development\, and co-sponsored by Spectrum Center. UID:135463-21876852@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135463 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Graduate and Professional Students,LGBT,LGBTQ Health and Wellness Week LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - Kahn Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250519T150847 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T193000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Exiting a Community-Engaged Project DESCRIPTION:An important goal of community-engaged learning experiences is for students to have a positive\, humanizing\, and sustainable impact on the communities they work with. Students reaching the end of a community-engaged course or service project should prepare to exit a community with these goals in mind. In this interactive session\, students will explore what it means to exit a project sustainably\; discuss the outputs\, outcomes\, and impacts of their project\; identify important questions to ask their community partners in preparation for exiting a project\; and discuss and work on their exit plan.\n\nRegister for the Session Here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/86972 UID:129375-21873995@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129375 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Free,Graduate Students,Leadership,Learning Center,Student Org,Undergraduate Students,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250528T100538 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Merry Wives of Windsor DESCRIPTION:Foiled seduction\, plans gone awry\, and plots to deliver comeuppance. The pompous Falstaff attempts to woo the wives of two wealthy merchants in order to increase his own personal fortune. Mistresses Page and Ford quickly discover his plot and conspire to make a mockery of\, and fool Falstaff. \n\nNow in its 23rd season\, Shakespeare in the Arb is outdoor theater at its finest. The play runs for approximately 3 hours and scenes occur in various locations within Nichols Arboretum. The natural landscape is an intentional component of each scene. \n\nAll tickets are general admission lawn style seating. Please bring a chair or a blanket. Audience members should be prepared for weather conditions\, periods of sitting\, standing\, and up to 3 miles of walking to various locations in the Arboretum. Expect inclines and slopes\, staircases\, grass\, gravel\, and mulch as part of the terrain.  All tickets are held at Will Call\, Nichols Arboretum Visitor Center\, 1610 Washington Heights. Ticket pick up is 5:00pm-6:00pm with showtime promptly at 6:30pm. For more information\, visit https://mbgna.umich.edu/shakespeare-arb\n\nNo refunds or exchanges except in the event of a cancellation. A cancellation policy can be found at http://mbgna.umich.edu/shakespeare-arb UID:134908-21876690@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134908 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mutotix LOCATION:Nichols Arboretum CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250603T181611 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Opening Night Concert: Art Song and Chamber Music DESCRIPTION:The opening concert of the Collaborative Piano Institute\, featuring faculty and participants performing art song and chamber music! Special guests include world-renowned collaborative pianist Warren Jones\, mezzo-soprano Amanda Majeski\, Metropolitan Opera soprano Korliss Uecker\, SMTD Piano Faculty Elena Lacheva\, and other SMTD faculty members.\n\nThe Collaborative Piano Institute is a premier summer program co-founded by SMTD faculty members Elena Lacheva and Ana María Otamendi. Learn more at www.collaborativepianoinstitute.org. UID:135895-21877488@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135895 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250509T115759 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Phillip-Michael Scales DESCRIPTION:Dive Bar Soul\n\nPhillip-Michael was born in Michigan\, forged in Chicago\, and now lives in Nashville\, TN. He grew up with B.B. King calling him “nephew” and calls his music \"Dive Bar Soul\,\" a blend of Indie Rock storytelling and the passion of the blues. In February of 2022\, he caught the attention of Ellen Degeneres who featured him on her show. In June of 2024 he spent a month supporting Legendary Songwriter Keb’ Mo’ on tour. UID:133746-21873505@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133746 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250605T180006 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250605T230000 SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Thursday Night Magic DESCRIPTION:A weekly 3-hour event for casual playing and trading of Magic: The Gathering! We typically will only play EDH\, but you may check the server to see if other formats are being played! We semi-frequently do drafts\, and occasionally also prereleases! UID:135709-21877164@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135709 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Wolverine Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250605T111844 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:alles Sklar DESCRIPTION:a conference in memory of Larry Sklar\nJune 6\, 2025. Tanner Library at the University of Michigan\n\n9:00–10:30. Robert Batterman (University of Pittsburgh)\nCorrelations\, Mesoscale Structures\, and DNNs\n\n10:45–12:15. James Joyce (Univeristy of Michigan)\nShould Bayesian Conditioning always Increase Expected Accuracy?\n\n1:15–2:45. Kevin Coffey (New York University Abu Dhabi) \nDimensions of Theorizing: Reformulation\, Structure\, and Symmetry\n\n3:00–4:30. Lina Jansson (University of Nottingham)\nAnalog Simulators: Loveliness as an Enabler of Likeliness\n\nUpdate 6/5: Angell Hall front entrance is open towards the north end. Take a right after the lobby and the entrance to Tanner Library is on the right. \nAngell Hall's front entrance is currently closed for renovations. The easiest way to enter is through the north side of building(where Angell ends and connects to Mason). You will see an doorway down a flight of stairs. Head into this door take a left through the doors. The hallway will take a quick right. Before the double doors Use the Elevator to get to the 1st floor. From there Tanner Library is on the other side of the lobby. UID:135571-21876956@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135571 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Department Of Philosophy,Workshop LOCATION:Angell Hall - Tanner Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250408T135629 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Behind the Curve: Rainbows and the Science and Culture of Color DESCRIPTION:We have many significant books from the history of our understanding of rainbows and color theory\, from the writings of scholar Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham to Isaac Newton’s 1704 Opticks. Rainbows appear across the spectrum of our collections\, and this exhibit includes a handwritten illuminated manuscript\, practical color manuals of the industrial age\, contemporary artists’ and children’s books\, and more from our vast holdings. \n\nRainbows have captivated people for all of recorded history. It’s hard not to think of them as physical objects\, but they are really just distorted images of the sun\, positioned around the viewer’s head. They require someone to perceive them to exist\, and thus have much in common with colors and color theory in general. And\, like colors\, they are about relationships: of one color next to another\, and of colors and the people who see them. The rainbow has had many different cultural interpretations over the years\, and most recently has become synonymous with gay pride\, appearing all over each June.\n\nHatcher Gallery Exhibit Room Hours:\nSunday\, 2-8pm\nMonday-Thursday\, 9am-8pm\nFriday\, 9am-4pm\nSaturday\, 11am-5pm UID:134798-21875166@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134798 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room (1st floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250407T111911 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Carlo Vitale Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Carlo Vitale is a distinguished Michigan-based artist whose vibrant contributions to the Detroit art scene have flourished since the 1970s. A native of Detroit\, Vitale's work is celebrated as part of the second generation of the Cass Corridor Art Movement\, Detroit’s first avante garde. His art draws inspiration from the sweeping vistas of farmland seen from above\, the intricate patterns of quilt-making\, the dynamic energy of cityscapes\, and the rich tapestry of daily life. Vitale eloquently characterizes his mesmerizing oil paintings and prints as “kinetic\, metaphysical abstractions\,” inviting viewers to engage with the depth and vitality of his creative vision.\n\nVitale received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Masters of Fine Arts from Wayne State University in Detroit. His work can be found in many collections including The Whitney Museum of Fine Art in New York\, The Detroit Institute of Art\, Cranbrook Art Museum\, Wayne State University Collection\, University of Michigan Museum of Art and corporate\, hospital\, and private collections throughout the country. UID:134757-21874898@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134757 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,Visual Arts LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - NCRC Galleries CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250418T112901 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Facilitator Training and Certification: Council Practice with Snap Inc. DESCRIPTION:June 5 - 6\, 2025 (You must participate for both days\, June 5 and 6\, to receive certification)\n9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. ET\, both days\nMichigan Ross\, Ross Building\, 701 Tappan\, Ann Arbor\nOpen to all\, $50 registration fee required\n\nAbout the training:\nJoin us for an extraordinary chance to participate in a free two-day facilitator training and certification in the Council method as practiced at Snap Inc. This special opportunity is available to CPO community members with training led by experienced facilitators from Snap Inc. Participants will engage in learning how to skillfully facilitate this valuable listening and storytelling practice that has been part of the DNA at Snap Inc. since its founding. Council gathers team members in a circle for storytelling as a way to connect\, listen\, and meet one another as humans\, and to scale empathy and foster deeper connections. It is the way that Snap Inc. builds an inclusive community and creates high-performing teams.\n\nIn this certification training\, you will:\n- Learn the basic forms of Council and skill-building activities for facilitation\n- Foster deeper connections with those around you\n- Practice active listening to cultivate empathy\n- Develop your capacity to skillfully bring Council to communities where you want to foster belonging\n\nQuestions? Email cpo-events@umich.edu. UID:135114-21876326@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135114 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Center For Positive Organizations,Training LOCATION:Ross School of Business CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250502T131729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T120000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Michigan Cosmology Summer School DESCRIPTION:Summer school will run the week of June 2nd UID:135337-21876710@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135337 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Science LOCATION:Central Campus Classroom Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250211T122734 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Redefining the Crown DESCRIPTION:In Winter 2025\, the Lane Hall exhibit space will feature a portraiture series titled Redefining the Crown showcasing the powerful stories of six Black breast cancer survivors.\n\nBased on a photo essay by U-M Faculty Versha Pleasant (MD/MPH) and Ava Purkiss (PhD) in Medicine at Michigan\, this exhibition examines the cultural and personal significance of hair within Black communities\, particularly through the lens of breast cancer treatment and recovery. The term \"crown\" is deeply symbolic in Black culture\, signifying beauty\, strength\, and identity. The featured photo essay by photographer Tafari Stevenson-Howard captures the intimate journeys of Ann Chatman\, Tanisha Kennedy\, Felecia McDaniel\, Shantell Elaine McCoy\, Tamara Lynn Myles\, and Veleria Banks.\n\nThrough their narratives and portraits\, the exhibit examines how these women have navigated the profound impact of hair loss caused by chemotherapy\, inviting the audience to witness their stories with radical empathy. It explores the cultural pride and personal identity intricately tied to their hair\, and how these elements are redefined amidst their battles with breast cancer.\n\nThe exhibit will be on view from January 21\, 2025 to August 8\, 2025. This exhibition is presented with support from IRWG\, the Department of Women's and Gender Studies\, and Michigan Medicine. \n\nLocated on the first floor of Lane Hall (204 S. State Street)\, the Exhibit Space is free and open to the public\, M-F\, 9am-4pm. UID:129602-21864154@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129602 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:african american,Art,institute for research on women and gender,women,Women's And Gender Studies LOCATION:Lane Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240130T121550 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:A Gathering DESCRIPTION:Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.\n \nA Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. \n \nAs a free\, public museum\, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition\, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present\, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges\, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations\, race\, gender\, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.\n \nThis collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals\, as a museum\, and as a society\, connected to one another across space and experience.\n \nSo gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings\, to discuss their takes\, to learn\, to disagree. Gather to relax\, make a friend\, drink a coffee\, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full\, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.\n \nCurated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn\, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n  UID:107870-21818136@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,Museum,Staff,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250529T110505 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Beyond Survival DESCRIPTION:Join us for Beyond Survival\, an exhibition of works by incarcerated artists in Michigan presented by PCAP co-founder Janie Paul and the Flint Institute of the Arts. The exhibit opens May 30th and runs through September 14th. \n\nThe pieces span nearly 30 years\, many of them having been featured in our Annual Exhibition.\n\n\"Through drawings\, paintings\, and sculptures made with simple materials\, artists expose the harsh realities of incarceration while imagining life beyond prison. These works reveal a longing for home and family\, joy and beauty\, connections to nature\, flights of the imagination\, and journeys toward freedom—acts of creation made despite and in direct response to carceral conditions.\" UID:135894-21877387@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135894 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Exhibition,Incarceration LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Graphics Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250304T131847 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T163000 SUMMARY:Other:Moth Eden DESCRIPTION:Explore \"Moth Eden\,\" an evocative art exhibit by Anne Erlewine\, running from April 19 to July 6\, 2025. ‘Moth Eden’ is a series of works exploring the relationship between the sacred reverence of the female form depicted as landscape and the conditioned tension of objectification contrasted by omission through eclipsing desire with the natural essence of bloom and nectar as it pertains to moth sustenance.\n\nAnne Erlewine\, an artist from Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, cultivated her artistic talents from an early age\, inspired by her fine artist grandmother. Her creative journey was further developed at the University of Michigan\, where she studied art and writing. UID:133414-21873024@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133414 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Free,In Person,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240130T121551 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism DESCRIPTION:Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison)\, this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art\, 1650-1850.\n \nIn recent times\, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections\, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries\, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works\, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.\n \nPieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet\, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden\, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  \n \nIn this online exhibition\, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery\, which will open in early 2021\, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. \n \nBy challenging our own practice\, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display\, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles\, and fails to settle for\, simple narratives. \n \n“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed\, so ornate\, so planned\, they call attention to themselves\; arrest us with intentionality and purpose\, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” \n \n— Toni Morrison\n\nLead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the U-M Arts Initiative\, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.\n  UID:84303-21621615@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,European,Exhibition,History,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - European and American Decorative Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250421T113230 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Bloody Work: Lexington and Concord 1775 DESCRIPTION:The William L. Clements Library is pleased to announce a forthcoming exhibition in recognition of the 250th Anniversary of the military hostilities that began the American Revolutionary War. The Battles of Lexington and Concord are firmly established in American memory as the culmination of a range of governmental\, political\, economic\, and social tensions that amplified in the decade leading up to 1775. In this exhibit\, visitors will have the opportunity to see original historical manuscript letters\, documents\, newspapers\, and artwork that reveal aspects of the bloody work of Empire and individual alike in April 1775.\n\nAmong the items on display will be Commander in Chief of the British Army\, General Thomas Gage's draft orders for the Concord Expedition\, April 18\, 1775\; a bundle of letters collected by former Sons of Liberty supporter Dr. Benjamin Church\, which he secretly turned over to British Army intelligence\; letters by Silas Deane\, John Hancock\, and Rachel Revere\; and much more.\n\nOpen weekdays from 12-4 pm. UID:134875-21875554@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134875 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,Ann Arbor,Exhibit,Exhibition,Free,history,libraries,Library LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250530T183843 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Frontiers in Scientific Machine Learning Seminar 15: Sample-efficient and Principled Decision-making with Expensive Stochastic Oracles DESCRIPTION:Date: June 6\, 2025\, 12pm - 1pm\nThis is a hybrid event. To join via Zoom: Meeting ID: 978 2352 7756\, Passcode: Enter last year in format YYYY\n\nTo join in person: 1642 GG Brown Building. Refreshments will be available.\n\nAbstract: Modern day engineering decision-making involves one or more computer simulation oracles of an engineered system which can be queried on-demand to learn the system response to control input. Querying simulation oracles\, also called “computer experiments”\, incur a non-trivial computational cost\, which increases with the level of fidelity in the underlying models. For instance\, a realistic computational aerodynamic simulation of an aircraft can cost several thousands of CPU hours to compute—anything more than a few dozens of such simulations is prohibitive. Therefore\, a central goal of engineering decision-making is to optimally design computer experiments\, to maximize the value of information extracted at minimal computational effort.\nIn this talk\, we will address problems anchored in\, what we coin\, the “decision-making triad” which includes: surrogate modeling\, uncertainty quantification (UQ)\, and numerical optimization/control. Specifically\, using variants of a probabilistic surrogate model and a Bayesian decision theoretic framework\, we will show that problems in the decision-making triad can be solved in a principled\, theoretically sound and\, yet (computational) cost-effective manner. We will show demonstrations on applications in computational aerodynamics.\n\nSpeaker bio: Ashwin Renganathan is an assistant professor of aerospace engineering at Penn State and holds a joint appointment with the Penn State Institute of Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS). He directs the Computational complex engineered Systems Design Laboratory (CSDL) at Penn State. He is broadly interested in developing novel and scalable computational techniques for surrogate modeling\, uncertainty quantification\, and numerical optimization\, with a focus on aerospace applications. He earned his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech and previously completed a postdoctoral appointment in applied mathematics at the Argonne National Laboratory. UID:135837-21877312@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135837 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ai In Science And Engineering,Computational Modeling,Engineering,Graduate School,Interdisciplinary,North Campus,Research,Sciml,Statistics LOCATION:GG Brown Laboratory - 1642 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260112T144046 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T123000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Heartfulness Guided Meditation DESCRIPTION:Heartfulness Guided Meditation is a weekly\, drop-in program designed to help you Mental well-being. \n\nAll U-M students\, faculty\, and staff are welcome to participate in guided meditation practice with a trainer every Friday at noon over Zoom (details to join are provided below). No prior experience with meditation is required. \n\n*What will you learn?*\n\nThe guided meditation practice involves three simple steps: relaxation\, rejuvenation\, and meditation.\n\nRelaxation brings your body to a calm\, steady posture creating a stillness at the physical level\, and prepares the mind for meditation. We follow this with a rejuvenation method to detox the mind to let go of stress and complex emotions\, and will leave you feeling light and refreshed. Lastly\, learning to meditate by being mindful of your heart will connect you with yourself by listening to your heart’s voice. \n\n*Why Meditate?*\n\nWhile physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape\, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness. In addition to the measurable benefits mentally and physically\, many people benefit from an unquantifiable inner poise and harmony. \n\n*Please take Learn to Meditate session if you are new to the practice. These sessions are offered Monthly.* https://events.umich.edu/event/128708\n\n*Event Details*\n\nHeartfulness Guided Meditation \nFridays from 12-12:30 p.m. ET (except during university season days / holidays)\nJoin Via Zoom Meeting\nRegister to receive Passcode (see “Related links”\n\n\nThis wellness program is coordinated by ITS Teaching & Learning and provided at no cost by heartfulness.org. UID:88544-21865092@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/88544 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Health & Wellness,Well-being LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250908T080307 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Watcher of the Sky: Making and Remaking the Detroit Observatory DESCRIPTION:The Detroit Observatory was once a hub of astronomical discovery that put the University of Michigan on the map as a world-class research institution. A century later\, it was an abandoned building with an uncertain future. From cornerstone to keystone\, from the first director to the people who saved it from destruction\, explore the life of a historic observatory 170 years in the making.\n\n\"Watcher of the Sky\" is being developed by student docents at the Detroit Observatory. They are currently collaborating with a museum design firm on the final version of the exhibit\, which will debut in fall 2025. We invite you to check out what they've done so far.\n\nPresented by the Judy and Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory\, part of the Bentley Historical Library.\n\n\"Watcher of the Sky\" is now on display at the Detroit Observatory (1398 Ann Street\, Ann Arbor\, 48109). View the exhibit during the Observatory's open hours: \nThursdays\, 12-5 pm\nFridays\, 12-5 pm UID:135958-21877560@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135958 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomers,astronomy,bentley historical library,bentley library,Education,educational,Exhibition,free,history,Museum,museums,Science,U-m History,university history,university of michigan history LOCATION:Detroit Observatory CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251030T111431 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T124500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:We Are Stars DESCRIPTION:What are we made of? Where did it all come from? Explore the secrets of our cosmic chemistry and our explosive origins. Connect life on Earth to the evolution of the Universe by following the formation of hydrogen atoms to the synthesis of carbon\, and the molecules for life. UID:124092-21876243@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/124092 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum,natural history museum,Planetarium,Science LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250507T154122 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T144500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Dynamic Earth DESCRIPTION:The show explores the inner workings of Earth’s climate system. With visualizations based on satellite monitoring data and advanced supercomputer simulations\, this cutting-edge production follows a trail of energy that flows from the Sun into the interlocking systems that shape our climate: the atmosphere\, oceans\, and the biosphere.\n\nAudiences will ride along on swirling ocean and wind currents\, dive into the heart of a monster hurricane\, come face-to-face with sharks and gigantic whales\, and fly into roiling volcanoes. UID:135104-21876296@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135104 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Planetarium,Space LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250303T063247 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Affinity Office Hours - Ace the Case with McKinsey Women's Community DESCRIPTION:A strongly written resume is important to a successful application! Join us for a resume workshop\, we'll provide guidance and recommendations on how best to format your resume and capture your experiences. This event is hosted by McKinsey's Women's Community\, and is just one of our many worldwide initiatives aimed at helping individuals get to know McKinsey better. UID:133241-21872633@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133241 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250507T154359 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T170000 SUMMARY:Tours:Guided Tour of the Clements Library DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn more about the history of the Clements Library\, its programs\, and collections. Highlights include Benjamin West's iconic painting \"Death of General Wolfe\,\" a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Thomas Gage's papers\, and the current exhibit\, \"Bloody Work: Lexington and Concord 1775\". UID:135506-21876896@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135506 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american history,Ann Arbor,Exhibit,Exhibition,Free,history,In Person,libraries,Library,Tour LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250303T063127 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T180000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Center for Urban Teaching Summer School Teacher Meet-and-Greet DESCRIPTION:Allow participants in the Center for Urban Teaching’s summer school internship to commune one more time virtually before meeting inperson on June 11th. Non-program participants will be able to connect in this last minute opportunity to determine if they can make this Summer work or if they will need to plan ahead for the upcoming year. Undergrads from all majors are welcome to get involved. UID:128819-21861661@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/128819 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250513T133256 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T193000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Friday Night AI DESCRIPTION:Panelists: Prof. Florian Schaubb\, Prof.Roya Ensafi\nModerator: Prof. Rada Mihalcea\nInteractive Activities: Yara El-Tawil\, Snehal Prabhudesai\nOrganizer: Michigan AI Lab\, in collaboration with the Ann Arbor District Library\nWhen: June 6\, 6:30pm – 7:30pm\nWhere: AADL Ann Arbor downtown\,1st Floor Lobby (343 S 5th Ave\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48104)\n\nAs artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in our daily lives—from personalized recommendations to censorship and surveillance—questions about privacy have taken on new significance. What happens to the data we generate? Who has access\, and how is it being used? While AI offers powerful tools for everything from fraud detection to healthcare\, it also raises complex ethical and legal concerns around personal freedom\, consent\, and control over our digital identities. Join us for a conversation with experts in AI\, digital rights\, and censorship as we explore how emerging technologies are reshaping the boundaries of privacy. We’ll discuss where protections are falling short\, what policies are evolving\, and how we can build systems that balance innovation with personal agency.\nWith interactive activities developed by graduate students Yara El-Tawil & Snehal Prabhudesai.\n\nAbout the speakers:\n\nFlorian Schaub is an associate professor of Information and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. His interdisciplinary research combines privacy\, human-computer interaction\, emerging technologies\, and public policy. He studies people’s privacy decision making and behavior\, investigates technology-related privacy implications\, and develops human-centric privacy solutions that help people better manage their privacy in technology contexts.. His research has been honored with the 2019 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies\, and with best paper awards at the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI)\, the USENIX Security Symposium\, and the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). Dr. Schaub is a DARPA Young Faculty Award recipient. His research has directly impacted industry practice and public policy\, including the rulemaking process for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Dr. Schaub and his work are frequently featured in national and international news media.\n\nRoya Ensafi is an associate professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan\, where her research focuses on Internet security and privacy\, with the goal of creating techniques and systems to better protect users online. She is particularly passionate about online censorship\, geo-discrimination\, surveillance\, and related threats to Internet freedom. Prof. Ensafi is the founder of Censored Planet\, a global censorship observatory. She has studied Russia’s throttling of Twitter\, HTTPS interception in Kazakhstan\, and China’s Great Cannon attack\, among many other instances of network interference. She is a recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship\, NSF CAREER\, Google Faculty Research Award\, multiple IRTF Applied Networking Research Prizes\, and the Consumer Reports Digital Lab fellowship. Her work has been cited in popular publications such as The New York Times\, Newsweek\, Business Insider\, Wired\, and Ars Technica.\n\nModerator: Rada Mihalcea is the Janice M. Jenkins Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Michigan Artificial Intelligence Lab. Her research interests are in natural language processing\, with a focus on multimodal processing and computational social sciences. She is an ACM Fellow\, a AAAI Fellow\, and served as ACL President (2018-2022 Vice/Past). She is the recipient of a Sarah Goddard Power award (2019) for her contributions to diversity in science\, and the recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers awarded by President Obama (2009). UID:135140-21876355@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135140 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ai In Science And Engineering,Artificial Intelligence,Community Engagement,Computational Modeling,Computational Science,Computational Social Science,Computer Engineering,Computer Science,computing,Data Science,Deep Learning,Electrical And Computer Engineering,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Engineering,Faculty,Family,Free,Generative Ai,In Person,Information and Technology,Machine Learning,Michigan Ai Lab,Michigan Engineering,Natural Language Processing,Privacy,Responsible Ai,Security,Social Impact,Social Science,Technology,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location - 4th Floor Meeting Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250528T100538 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Merry Wives of Windsor DESCRIPTION:Foiled seduction\, plans gone awry\, and plots to deliver comeuppance. The pompous Falstaff attempts to woo the wives of two wealthy merchants in order to increase his own personal fortune. Mistresses Page and Ford quickly discover his plot and conspire to make a mockery of\, and fool Falstaff. \n\nNow in its 23rd season\, Shakespeare in the Arb is outdoor theater at its finest. The play runs for approximately 3 hours and scenes occur in various locations within Nichols Arboretum. The natural landscape is an intentional component of each scene. \n\nAll tickets are general admission lawn style seating. Please bring a chair or a blanket. Audience members should be prepared for weather conditions\, periods of sitting\, standing\, and up to 3 miles of walking to various locations in the Arboretum. Expect inclines and slopes\, staircases\, grass\, gravel\, and mulch as part of the terrain.  All tickets are held at Will Call\, Nichols Arboretum Visitor Center\, 1610 Washington Heights. Ticket pick up is 5:00pm-6:00pm with showtime promptly at 6:30pm. For more information\, visit https://mbgna.umich.edu/shakespeare-arb\n\nNo refunds or exchanges except in the event of a cancellation. A cancellation policy can be found at http://mbgna.umich.edu/shakespeare-arb UID:134908-21876697@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134908 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mutotix LOCATION:Nichols Arboretum CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250908T080452 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T223000 SUMMARY:Tours:Astronomy Night DESCRIPTION:Experience history and astronomy at the Judy and Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory! \n\nLocated on Central Campus next to Alice Lloyd Hall and Couzens Hall. Free admission\; no registration required.\n\nObservatory Tours: 1 hour guided tour of the Detroit Observatory\, including Historic Telescope Observing of the seasonal night sky. Tours begin at 8:00\, 8:30\, 9:00\, and 9:30 PM.\n\nWalk-in Visits: 8:00pm-10:30 PM. View exhibits and observe with the historic Fitz telescope.\n\nTelescope observing is weather permitting. UID:135338-21877662@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135338 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:astronomy,Education,educational,Family,free,Museum,museums,observing,Science,Telescope Observation,telescope viewing,Telescopes,tour LOCATION:Detroit Observatory CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250509T114710 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250606T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Tom Cotter DESCRIPTION:First comedian to ever reach the finals of NBC’s “America’s Got Talent”\n\nTom Cotter is one of the funniest comedians in the world! Even before his historic finish on NBC'S America's Got Talent (he lost to a dog)\, Tom was entertaining audiences across the United States\, and internationally! He performed in London and on British TV\, has won the Seattle International Comedy Competition\, was voted \"Best Stand-Up\" at The Las Vegas Comedy Festival\, and won the grand prize at The Boston Comedy Festival. Some of Tom's many television and radio credits include: The Tonight Show\, Last Comic Standing\, numerous \"Comedy Central Presents... Tom Cotter\" specials\, Comics Unleashed\, CBS’ The Late Late Show\, Celebrity Host of “Gotham Comedy Live” on AXS-TV\, and The Howard Stern Show. Tom headlines all of America's most famous comedy clubs including: The Comedy Cellar\, The Improvs\, and Caroline's On Broadway\, just to name a few. He has performed at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal\, the HBO Comedy Arts Festival\, and he was the headliner for the America's Got Talent Live show in Las Vegas. Tom is constantly a sought-after talent! Known for his sarcasm\, satire\, and word play\, there's never a dull moment when Tom Cotter is on stage! UID:134781-21875112@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134781 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250408T135629 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Behind the Curve: Rainbows and the Science and Culture of Color DESCRIPTION:We have many significant books from the history of our understanding of rainbows and color theory\, from the writings of scholar Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham to Isaac Newton’s 1704 Opticks. Rainbows appear across the spectrum of our collections\, and this exhibit includes a handwritten illuminated manuscript\, practical color manuals of the industrial age\, contemporary artists’ and children’s books\, and more from our vast holdings. \n\nRainbows have captivated people for all of recorded history. It’s hard not to think of them as physical objects\, but they are really just distorted images of the sun\, positioned around the viewer’s head. They require someone to perceive them to exist\, and thus have much in common with colors and color theory in general. And\, like colors\, they are about relationships: of one color next to another\, and of colors and the people who see them. The rainbow has had many different cultural interpretations over the years\, and most recently has become synonymous with gay pride\, appearing all over each June.\n\nHatcher Gallery Exhibit Room Hours:\nSunday\, 2-8pm\nMonday-Thursday\, 9am-8pm\nFriday\, 9am-4pm\nSaturday\, 11am-5pm UID:134798-21875167@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134798 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room (1st floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250529T110505 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Beyond Survival DESCRIPTION:Join us for Beyond Survival\, an exhibition of works by incarcerated artists in Michigan presented by PCAP co-founder Janie Paul and the Flint Institute of the Arts. The exhibit opens May 30th and runs through September 14th. \n\nThe pieces span nearly 30 years\, many of them having been featured in our Annual Exhibition.\n\n\"Through drawings\, paintings\, and sculptures made with simple materials\, artists expose the harsh realities of incarceration while imagining life beyond prison. These works reveal a longing for home and family\, joy and beauty\, connections to nature\, flights of the imagination\, and journeys toward freedom—acts of creation made despite and in direct response to carceral conditions.\" UID:135894-21877388@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135894 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Exhibition,Incarceration LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Graphics Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250304T131847 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T163000 SUMMARY:Other:Moth Eden DESCRIPTION:Explore \"Moth Eden\,\" an evocative art exhibit by Anne Erlewine\, running from April 19 to July 6\, 2025. ‘Moth Eden’ is a series of works exploring the relationship between the sacred reverence of the female form depicted as landscape and the conditioned tension of objectification contrasted by omission through eclipsing desire with the natural essence of bloom and nectar as it pertains to moth sustenance.\n\nAnne Erlewine\, an artist from Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, cultivated her artistic talents from an early age\, inspired by her fine artist grandmother. Her creative journey was further developed at the University of Michigan\, where she studied art and writing. UID:133414-21873025@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133414 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Free,In Person,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240130T121550 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:A Gathering DESCRIPTION:Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.\n \nA Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. \n \nAs a free\, public museum\, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition\, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present\, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges\, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations\, race\, gender\, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.\n \nThis collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals\, as a museum\, and as a society\, connected to one another across space and experience.\n \nSo gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings\, to discuss their takes\, to learn\, to disagree. Gather to relax\, make a friend\, drink a coffee\, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full\, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.\n \nCurated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn\, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n  UID:107870-21818137@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,Museum,Staff,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250604T083231 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T163000 SUMMARY:Other:Native Plant Sale DESCRIPTION:Support Michigan’s ecosystems by planting native plants! Join us for our annual Native Plant Sale\, featuring a wide variety of Michigan-native seedlings grown and tended by our expert horticulture team. This year’s selection includes favorites like butterfly weed\, cardinal flower\, swamp milkweed\, prairie dropseed\, wild bergamot\, foxglove beardtongue\, wood mint\, turtlehead\, and so many more! UID:135988-21877620@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135988 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:biodiversity,Nature,Sustainability LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240130T121551 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism DESCRIPTION:Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison)\, this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art\, 1650-1850.\n \nIn recent times\, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections\, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries\, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works\, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.\n \nPieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet\, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden\, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  \n \nIn this online exhibition\, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery\, which will open in early 2021\, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. \n \nBy challenging our own practice\, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display\, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles\, and fails to settle for\, simple narratives. \n \n“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed\, so ornate\, so planned\, they call attention to themselves\; arrest us with intentionality and purpose\, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” \n \n— Toni Morrison\n\nLead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the U-M Arts Initiative\, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.\n  UID:84303-21621616@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,European,Exhibition,History,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - European and American Decorative Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250515T145449 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T111500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Read and Look | In Egyptian Times DESCRIPTION:Join us for a kid-friendly tour of the Egyptian exhibits at the Kelsey Museum! We will begin by reading aloud *In Egyptian Times* by Kate Davies and Alfredo Belli—a book that follows a day in the life of a group of children in ancient Egypt. After the story\, we’ll explore the galleries to find artifacts pictured in the book\, including a miniature boat\, a desk and pens\, sandals\, painted hieroglyphs\, real ancient food\, and Egyptian jewelry. This program is great for our younger visitors\, ages 4–8. All children must be accompanied by an adult.\n\nThis event is free and open to all visitors. If you have any questions or concerns regarding accessing this event\, please visit our accessibility page at https://myumi.ch/zwPkd or contact the education office by calling (734) 647-4167. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:135649-21877035@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135649 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ancient Egypt,Archaeology,Books,Children,Family,Free,Museum,Storytelling,Tour LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251030T111431 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T124500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:We Are Stars DESCRIPTION:What are we made of? Where did it all come from? Explore the secrets of our cosmic chemistry and our explosive origins. Connect life on Earth to the evolution of the Universe by following the formation of hydrogen atoms to the synthesis of carbon\, and the molecules for life. UID:124092-21876253@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/124092 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum,natural history museum,Planetarium,Science LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250507T154122 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T144500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Dynamic Earth DESCRIPTION:The show explores the inner workings of Earth’s climate system. With visualizations based on satellite monitoring data and advanced supercomputer simulations\, this cutting-edge production follows a trail of energy that flows from the Sun into the interlocking systems that shape our climate: the atmosphere\, oceans\, and the biosphere.\n\nAudiences will ride along on swirling ocean and wind currents\, dive into the heart of a monster hurricane\, come face-to-face with sharks and gigantic whales\, and fly into roiling volcanoes. UID:135104-21876305@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135104 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Planetarium,Space LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250528T100538 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T183000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Merry Wives of Windsor DESCRIPTION:Foiled seduction\, plans gone awry\, and plots to deliver comeuppance. The pompous Falstaff attempts to woo the wives of two wealthy merchants in order to increase his own personal fortune. Mistresses Page and Ford quickly discover his plot and conspire to make a mockery of\, and fool Falstaff. \n\nNow in its 23rd season\, Shakespeare in the Arb is outdoor theater at its finest. The play runs for approximately 3 hours and scenes occur in various locations within Nichols Arboretum. The natural landscape is an intentional component of each scene. \n\nAll tickets are general admission lawn style seating. Please bring a chair or a blanket. Audience members should be prepared for weather conditions\, periods of sitting\, standing\, and up to 3 miles of walking to various locations in the Arboretum. Expect inclines and slopes\, staircases\, grass\, gravel\, and mulch as part of the terrain.  All tickets are held at Will Call\, Nichols Arboretum Visitor Center\, 1610 Washington Heights. Ticket pick up is 5:00pm-6:00pm with showtime promptly at 6:30pm. For more information\, visit https://mbgna.umich.edu/shakespeare-arb\n\nNo refunds or exchanges except in the event of a cancellation. A cancellation policy can be found at http://mbgna.umich.edu/shakespeare-arb UID:134908-21875687@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134908 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mutotix LOCATION:Nichols Arboretum CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250603T181612 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Art Song and Chamber Music DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Collaborative Piano Institute concert\, featuring faculty and participants performing art song and chamber music! Special guests include Martin Katz\, Dr. Charles Goodman\, tuba\, SMTD Piano Faculty Elena Lacheva and Ana María Otamendi\, and the Reverón Piano Trio.\n\nThe Collaborative Piano Institute is a premier summer program co-founded by SMTD faculty members Elena Lacheva and Ana María Otamendi. Learn more at www.collaborativepianoinstitute.org. UID:135896-21877489@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135896 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250607T180009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250607T230000 SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Saturday Night Magic DESCRIPTION:A weekly 4-hour event for casual playing and trading of Magic: The Gathering! We typically will only play EDH\, but you may check the server to see if other formats are being played! We semi-frequently do drafts\, and occasionally also prereleases! UID:135714-21877169@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135714 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Wolverine Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250408T135629 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Behind the Curve: Rainbows and the Science and Culture of Color DESCRIPTION:We have many significant books from the history of our understanding of rainbows and color theory\, from the writings of scholar Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham to Isaac Newton’s 1704 Opticks. Rainbows appear across the spectrum of our collections\, and this exhibit includes a handwritten illuminated manuscript\, practical color manuals of the industrial age\, contemporary artists’ and children’s books\, and more from our vast holdings. \n\nRainbows have captivated people for all of recorded history. It’s hard not to think of them as physical objects\, but they are really just distorted images of the sun\, positioned around the viewer’s head. They require someone to perceive them to exist\, and thus have much in common with colors and color theory in general. And\, like colors\, they are about relationships: of one color next to another\, and of colors and the people who see them. The rainbow has had many different cultural interpretations over the years\, and most recently has become synonymous with gay pride\, appearing all over each June.\n\nHatcher Gallery Exhibit Room Hours:\nSunday\, 2-8pm\nMonday-Thursday\, 9am-8pm\nFriday\, 9am-4pm\nSaturday\, 11am-5pm UID:134798-21875168@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134798 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room (1st floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250529T110505 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Beyond Survival DESCRIPTION:Join us for Beyond Survival\, an exhibition of works by incarcerated artists in Michigan presented by PCAP co-founder Janie Paul and the Flint Institute of the Arts. The exhibit opens May 30th and runs through September 14th. \n\nThe pieces span nearly 30 years\, many of them having been featured in our Annual Exhibition.\n\n\"Through drawings\, paintings\, and sculptures made with simple materials\, artists expose the harsh realities of incarceration while imagining life beyond prison. These works reveal a longing for home and family\, joy and beauty\, connections to nature\, flights of the imagination\, and journeys toward freedom—acts of creation made despite and in direct response to carceral conditions.\" UID:135894-21877389@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135894 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Exhibition,Incarceration LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Graphics Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250304T131847 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T163000 SUMMARY:Other:Moth Eden DESCRIPTION:Explore \"Moth Eden\,\" an evocative art exhibit by Anne Erlewine\, running from April 19 to July 6\, 2025. ‘Moth Eden’ is a series of works exploring the relationship between the sacred reverence of the female form depicted as landscape and the conditioned tension of objectification contrasted by omission through eclipsing desire with the natural essence of bloom and nectar as it pertains to moth sustenance.\n\nAnne Erlewine\, an artist from Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, cultivated her artistic talents from an early age\, inspired by her fine artist grandmother. Her creative journey was further developed at the University of Michigan\, where she studied art and writing. UID:133414-21873026@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133414 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Free,In Person,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250604T083231 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T163000 SUMMARY:Other:Native Plant Sale DESCRIPTION:Support Michigan’s ecosystems by planting native plants! Join us for our annual Native Plant Sale\, featuring a wide variety of Michigan-native seedlings grown and tended by our expert horticulture team. This year’s selection includes favorites like butterfly weed\, cardinal flower\, swamp milkweed\, prairie dropseed\, wild bergamot\, foxglove beardtongue\, wood mint\, turtlehead\, and so many more! UID:135988-21877621@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135988 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:biodiversity,Nature,Sustainability LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240130T121550 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:A Gathering DESCRIPTION:Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.\n \nA Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. \n \nAs a free\, public museum\, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition\, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present\, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges\, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations\, race\, gender\, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.\n \nThis collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals\, as a museum\, and as a society\, connected to one another across space and experience.\n \nSo gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings\, to discuss their takes\, to learn\, to disagree. Gather to relax\, make a friend\, drink a coffee\, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full\, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.\n \nCurated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn\, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n  UID:107870-21818138@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,Museum,Staff,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240130T121551 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism DESCRIPTION:Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison)\, this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art\, 1650-1850.\n \nIn recent times\, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections\, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries\, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works\, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.\n \nPieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet\, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden\, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  \n \nIn this online exhibition\, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery\, which will open in early 2021\, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. \n \nBy challenging our own practice\, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display\, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles\, and fails to settle for\, simple narratives. \n \n“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed\, so ornate\, so planned\, they call attention to themselves\; arrest us with intentionality and purpose\, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” \n \n— Toni Morrison\n\nLead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the U-M Arts Initiative\, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.\n  UID:84303-21621617@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,European,Exhibition,History,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - European and American Decorative Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251030T111431 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T124500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:We Are Stars DESCRIPTION:What are we made of? Where did it all come from? Explore the secrets of our cosmic chemistry and our explosive origins. Connect life on Earth to the evolution of the Universe by following the formation of hydrogen atoms to the synthesis of carbon\, and the molecules for life. UID:124092-21876724@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/124092 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum,natural history museum,Planetarium,Science LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250515T150020 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T133000 SUMMARY:Other:Read and Look | I’m Trying to Love Garbage DESCRIPTION:Do you ever wonder what happens to all the stuff we throw away? Bethany Barton’s *I’m Trying to Love Garbage* takes a (dumpster) dive into the history and future of garbage—exploring how animals\, humans\, fungi\, and various creepy-crawlies play important roles in collecting and disposing of waste. Filled with fascinating facts\, enjoyable illustrations\, and plenty of humor\, *I’m Trying to Love Garbage* prompts us to reflect on the trash we create and the places it ends up.\n\nOur Read and Look program focuses on archaeology and history for our littlest audience (recommended for ages 4–8). All children must be accompanied by an adult.\n\nThis event is free and open to all visitors. If you have any questions or concerns regarding accessing this event\, please visit our accessibility page at https://myumi.ch/zwPkd or contact the education office by calling (734) 647-4167. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:135651-21877036@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135651 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Books,Children,Environment,Family,Free,History,Museum,Storytelling LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250507T154122 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T144500 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Dynamic Earth DESCRIPTION:The show explores the inner workings of Earth’s climate system. With visualizations based on satellite monitoring data and advanced supercomputer simulations\, this cutting-edge production follows a trail of energy that flows from the Sun into the interlocking systems that shape our climate: the atmosphere\, oceans\, and the biosphere.\n\nAudiences will ride along on swirling ocean and wind currents\, dive into the heart of a monster hurricane\, come face-to-face with sharks and gigantic whales\, and fly into roiling volcanoes. UID:135104-21876314@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135104 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Planetarium,Space LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250509T112809 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T140000 SUMMARY:Performance:iBallet Spring Gala DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, June 8 th \, 2025 at 2:00 pm\niBallet proudly presents our annual Spring Gala\, Ballet in Bloom. Join us as we celebrate unity across countries\, generations\, and styles of dance. Welcoming guest artists from the Bolshoi Theatre and Philadelphia Ballet\, this performance features classical excerpts from the world's most famous ballets\, as well as cutting edge contemporary works performed by Michigan's premier academy for Ballet.\nAll ages are welcome.\nTickets start at $30.00 UID:135042-21876040@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135042 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mutotix LOCATION:Power Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250528T100538 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Merry Wives of Windsor DESCRIPTION:Foiled seduction\, plans gone awry\, and plots to deliver comeuppance. The pompous Falstaff attempts to woo the wives of two wealthy merchants in order to increase his own personal fortune. Mistresses Page and Ford quickly discover his plot and conspire to make a mockery of\, and fool Falstaff. \n\nNow in its 23rd season\, Shakespeare in the Arb is outdoor theater at its finest. The play runs for approximately 3 hours and scenes occur in various locations within Nichols Arboretum. The natural landscape is an intentional component of each scene. \n\nAll tickets are general admission lawn style seating. Please bring a chair or a blanket. Audience members should be prepared for weather conditions\, periods of sitting\, standing\, and up to 3 miles of walking to various locations in the Arboretum. Expect inclines and slopes\, staircases\, grass\, gravel\, and mulch as part of the terrain.  All tickets are held at Will Call\, Nichols Arboretum Visitor Center\, 1610 Washington Heights. Ticket pick up is 5:00pm-6:00pm with showtime promptly at 6:30pm. For more information\, visit https://mbgna.umich.edu/shakespeare-arb\n\nNo refunds or exchanges except in the event of a cancellation. A cancellation policy can be found at http://mbgna.umich.edu/shakespeare-arb UID:134908-21876701@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134908 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mutotix LOCATION:Nichols Arboretum CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250514T154751 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250608T190000 SUMMARY:Performance:VOICES: featuring London Beck and Zoey Grekin DESCRIPTION:London Beck is a multi-talented recording artist hailing from Southeast Michigan. As a singer\, songwriter\, producer\, composer\, sound engineer\, and multi-instrumentalist\, Beck stands out as a leader among a new generation of creatives who don’t just perform—they craft every detail of their storytelling soundscapes. With each release\, Beck showcases an evolving mastery of music\, offering insights into their unique creative vision and the industry's future.\n\nZoey Grekin is a dynamic young artist\, multi-instrumentalist\, singer\, and songwriter whose soulful sound draws inspiration from a wide range of artists including Beyoncé\, Stevie Wonder\, Sara Bareilles\, Alicia Keys\, Ingrid Michaelson\, Adele\, and Bruno Mars. Known for her commanding vocals and powerful drumming\, Zoey brings a unique energy to every performance—often driving the rhythm section while delivering emotive\, expressive vocals.\n\nRaised in a musical family\, Zoey grew up immersed in music at the Grekin School of Music\, where she learned to play a variety of instruments and developed her musical voice. She is currently a student at Ann Arbor’s Pioneer High School\, where she has performed as a singer\, and a featured drummer playing along with the Pioneer Choir and Orchestra and performed in the Pioneer Theatre Guild’s 2025 production of Future Stars.\n\nZoey has performed extensively around Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti\, both as a solo artist and with her band\, and continues to explore new musical directions with every performance. She is thrilled to bring her sound to The Ark stage. UID:133747-21873506@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133747 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250408T135629 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Behind the Curve: Rainbows and the Science and Culture of Color DESCRIPTION:We have many significant books from the history of our understanding of rainbows and color theory\, from the writings of scholar Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham to Isaac Newton’s 1704 Opticks. Rainbows appear across the spectrum of our collections\, and this exhibit includes a handwritten illuminated manuscript\, practical color manuals of the industrial age\, contemporary artists’ and children’s books\, and more from our vast holdings. \n\nRainbows have captivated people for all of recorded history. It’s hard not to think of them as physical objects\, but they are really just distorted images of the sun\, positioned around the viewer’s head. They require someone to perceive them to exist\, and thus have much in common with colors and color theory in general. And\, like colors\, they are about relationships: of one color next to another\, and of colors and the people who see them. The rainbow has had many different cultural interpretations over the years\, and most recently has become synonymous with gay pride\, appearing all over each June.\n\nHatcher Gallery Exhibit Room Hours:\nSunday\, 2-8pm\nMonday-Thursday\, 9am-8pm\nFriday\, 9am-4pm\nSaturday\, 11am-5pm UID:134798-21875169@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134798 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room (1st floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250513T110731 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T162000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Byrne B2A2 (Back to Ann Arbor) Conference on Stochastic Analysis in Finance and Insurance DESCRIPTION:Attendance is free\, but online registration is required for all attendees who are not speakers.\n\nSpeakers\nBahman Angoshtari (University of Miami)\nShuoqing Deng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)\nArash Fahim (Florida State University)\nQi Feng (Florida State University)\nGaoyue Guo (CentraleSupélec)\nBingyan Han (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)\nYu-Jui Huang (University of Colorado\, Boulder)\nAli Kara (Florida State University)\nChristian Keller (University of Central Florida)\nDonghan Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology)\nMike Ludkovski (University of California\, Santa Barbara)\nDominykas Norgilas (North Carolina State University)\nJinniao Qiu (University of Calgary)\nRonnie Sircar (Princeton University)\nQingshuo Song (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)\nGu Wang (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)\nZhenhua Wang (Shangdong University)\nRuoyu Wu (Iowa State University)\nHao Xing (Boston University)\nSong Yao (University of Pittsburgh)\nXiang Yu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)\nXin Zhang (New York University)\nZhou Zhou (University of Sydney)\nAntonios Zitridis (The University of Chicago)\n\nVenue\nAll the talks will be held in Forum Hall Auditorium at Palmer Commons Building\, located at 100 Washtenaw Ave\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109.\n\nOrganizers\nErhan Bayraktar (University of Michigan)\nAsaf Cohen (University of Michigan)\nIbrahim Ekren (University of Michigan)\n\nAcknowledgement\nThis meeting is partially funded by the Department of Mathematics\, Jack Byrne Center for Financial Mathematics and Risk Management\, and Curtis E. Huntington Honorary fund. UID:135618-21876995@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135618 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:colloquium,Free,seminar,Talk LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250407T111911 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Carlo Vitale Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Carlo Vitale is a distinguished Michigan-based artist whose vibrant contributions to the Detroit art scene have flourished since the 1970s. A native of Detroit\, Vitale's work is celebrated as part of the second generation of the Cass Corridor Art Movement\, Detroit’s first avante garde. His art draws inspiration from the sweeping vistas of farmland seen from above\, the intricate patterns of quilt-making\, the dynamic energy of cityscapes\, and the rich tapestry of daily life. Vitale eloquently characterizes his mesmerizing oil paintings and prints as “kinetic\, metaphysical abstractions\,” inviting viewers to engage with the depth and vitality of his creative vision.\n\nVitale received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Masters of Fine Arts from Wayne State University in Detroit. His work can be found in many collections including The Whitney Museum of Fine Art in New York\, The Detroit Institute of Art\, Cranbrook Art Museum\, Wayne State University Collection\, University of Michigan Museum of Art and corporate\, hospital\, and private collections throughout the country. UID:134757-21874901@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134757 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,Visual Arts LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - NCRC Galleries CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250211T122734 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Redefining the Crown DESCRIPTION:In Winter 2025\, the Lane Hall exhibit space will feature a portraiture series titled Redefining the Crown showcasing the powerful stories of six Black breast cancer survivors.\n\nBased on a photo essay by U-M Faculty Versha Pleasant (MD/MPH) and Ava Purkiss (PhD) in Medicine at Michigan\, this exhibition examines the cultural and personal significance of hair within Black communities\, particularly through the lens of breast cancer treatment and recovery. The term \"crown\" is deeply symbolic in Black culture\, signifying beauty\, strength\, and identity. The featured photo essay by photographer Tafari Stevenson-Howard captures the intimate journeys of Ann Chatman\, Tanisha Kennedy\, Felecia McDaniel\, Shantell Elaine McCoy\, Tamara Lynn Myles\, and Veleria Banks.\n\nThrough their narratives and portraits\, the exhibit examines how these women have navigated the profound impact of hair loss caused by chemotherapy\, inviting the audience to witness their stories with radical empathy. It explores the cultural pride and personal identity intricately tied to their hair\, and how these elements are redefined amidst their battles with breast cancer.\n\nThe exhibit will be on view from January 21\, 2025 to August 8\, 2025. This exhibition is presented with support from IRWG\, the Department of Women's and Gender Studies\, and Michigan Medicine. \n\nLocated on the first floor of Lane Hall (204 S. State Street)\, the Exhibit Space is free and open to the public\, M-F\, 9am-4pm. UID:129602-21864157@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129602 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:african american,Art,institute for research on women and gender,women,Women's And Gender Studies LOCATION:Lane Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250604T104248 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T120000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Summer Institute Course - Introduction to Survey Methodology DESCRIPTION:Introduction to Survey Methodology\nJune 9-13\, 2025\n9:00am-12:00pm EDT\nLive Online via Zoom\n\nIntroduction to Survey Methodology\, a noncredit course\, covers the basic principles of survey design and methods and introduces the necessary components of a good quality survey. The course employs the Total Survey Error framework to discuss sampling frames and designs\, modes of data collection and their effects on survey errors\, the cognitive processes involved in answering survey questions and their impact on questionnaire design\, pretesting methods and post-data collection processing. The goal of the course is to give an introduction to the skills and resources needed to design and conduct a survey. \n\nThe Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques provides rigorous and high quality graduate level training in all phases of survey research. The noncredit courses are open to all. The courses are live online via Zoom. Registration and payment are required. Course fees are based on the total number of hours assigned to each course\, the hours are listed on the course description. The 2025 schedule lists additional courses. If you have any questions regarding the application process\, please use the online contact form or email the Summer Institute at isr-summer@umich.edu .\n\nThe program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design\, implementation\, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948\, and has offered such courses every summer since. The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those specializing in social and behavioral research such as professionals in business\, public health\, natural resources\, law\, medicine\, nursing\, social work\, and many other domains of study. UID:135992-21877624@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135992 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Data,Data Analysis,Data Collection,Data Curation,Data Linkage,Data Management,Data Science,Survey Methodology,Survey Methods,Survey Research LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250529T110505 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Beyond Survival DESCRIPTION:Join us for Beyond Survival\, an exhibition of works by incarcerated artists in Michigan presented by PCAP co-founder Janie Paul and the Flint Institute of the Arts. The exhibit opens May 30th and runs through September 14th. \n\nThe pieces span nearly 30 years\, many of them having been featured in our Annual Exhibition.\n\n\"Through drawings\, paintings\, and sculptures made with simple materials\, artists expose the harsh realities of incarceration while imagining life beyond prison. These works reveal a longing for home and family\, joy and beauty\, connections to nature\, flights of the imagination\, and journeys toward freedom—acts of creation made despite and in direct response to carceral conditions.\" UID:135894-21877390@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135894 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Exhibition,Incarceration LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Graphics Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250421T113230 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Bloody Work: Lexington and Concord 1775 DESCRIPTION:The William L. Clements Library is pleased to announce a forthcoming exhibition in recognition of the 250th Anniversary of the military hostilities that began the American Revolutionary War. The Battles of Lexington and Concord are firmly established in American memory as the culmination of a range of governmental\, political\, economic\, and social tensions that amplified in the decade leading up to 1775. In this exhibit\, visitors will have the opportunity to see original historical manuscript letters\, documents\, newspapers\, and artwork that reveal aspects of the bloody work of Empire and individual alike in April 1775.\n\nAmong the items on display will be Commander in Chief of the British Army\, General Thomas Gage's draft orders for the Concord Expedition\, April 18\, 1775\; a bundle of letters collected by former Sons of Liberty supporter Dr. Benjamin Church\, which he secretly turned over to British Army intelligence\; letters by Silas Deane\, John Hancock\, and Rachel Revere\; and much more.\n\nOpen weekdays from 12-4 pm. UID:134875-21875557@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134875 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,Ann Arbor,Exhibit,Exhibition,Free,history,libraries,Library LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250609T112019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Graduate Student Career Exploration Resources and Strategies DESCRIPTION:This workshop will focus on resources you can leverage to explore career options\, as well as strategies to best position yourself for a variety of career trajectories. We will cover approaches to networking\, transferable skills\, and key resources designed to support your exploration. This workshop is open to students at all points in their graduate careers\, and there will be plenty of time for your questions.This event is intended to be interactive and therefore a recording will not be available.This workshop is designed for master's students\, doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff\, please contact rackhampdeworkshops@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.Brought to you by the University Career Center\, in partnership with Rackham Graduate School. UID:135507-21876898@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135507 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250511T165953 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Graduate Student Career Exploration Resources and Strategies DESCRIPTION:This workshop will focus on resources you can leverage to explore career options\, as well as strategies to best position yourself for a variety of career trajectories. We will cover approaches to networking\, transferable skills\, and key resources designed to support your exploration. This workshop is open to students at all points in their graduate careers\, and there will be plenty of time for your questions.\nThis event is intended to be interactive and therefore a recording will not be available.\nThis workshop is designed for master’s students\, doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff\, please contact rackhampdeworkshops@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.\n\nBrought to you by the University Career Center\, in partnership with Rackham Graduate School.\nRegistration is required at https://myumi.ch/4mjgW.\nWe want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time\, preferably one week\, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative. UID:135513-21876913@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135513 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Rgs Events,Rgs-events LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250604T104048 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T160000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Summer Institute Course - Designing and Writing Questions for Surveys: Guidelines and Recommendations DESCRIPTION:Designing and Writing Questions for Surveys: Guidelines and Recommendations\nJune 9-13\, 2025\n1:00pm-4:00pm EDT\nLive Online via Zoom\n\nCourse Objectives\n• Introduce a structural analysis of parts of a survey question\n• Introduce cognitive interviewing as a method for testing survey questions\n• Describe guidelines for diagnosing problems in survey questions and writing new survey questions\n• Focus on the structure and wording of survey questions\, whether for interviewer-administered or self- administered instruments\n• Provide an opportunity to apply the guidelines and principles during in-class exercises\n• Focus on improving individual questions and sets of questions.\n• Summarize research that underlies key decisions in writing survey questions.\n\nDescription\nThis workshop distills research about survey questions to principles that can be applied to write survey questions that are clear and obtain reliable answers. The workshop provides students with tools to use in diagnosing problems in survey questions and in writing their own survey questions. Sessions combine lecture with group exercises and discussion. The lecture provides guidelines for writing and revising survey questions and illustrates how to revise troubled questions. Assignments require that students analyze problematic questions\, revise them\, and administer them to fellow students. Sessions consider both questions about events and behaviors and questions about subjective phenomena (such as attitudes\, evaluations\, and internal\nstates).\n\nWho Should attend\nIndividuals who will be writing or reviewing survey questions or survey instruments or analyzing survey data. This course gives practical guidance to those who have written survey questions but who are not familiar with research on question design\, those who are just beginning to design survey instruments\, and those who use survey data but do not themselves design survey instruments.\n\nThe Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques provides rigorous and high quality graduate level training in all phases of survey research. The noncredit courses are open to all. The courses are live online via Zoom. Registration and payment are required. Course fees are based on the total number of hours assigned to each course\, the hours are listed on the course description. The 2025 schedule lists additional courses. If you have any questions regarding the application process\, please use the online contact form or email the Summer Institute at isr-summer@umich.edu .\n\nThe program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design\, implementation\, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948\, and has offered such courses every summer since. The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those UID:135993-21877626@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135993 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Data,Data Analysis,Data Collection,Data Curation,Data Linkage,Data Management,Data Science,Survey Methodology,Survey Methods,Survey Research LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250522T101817 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T160000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Understanding Coexistence Outcomes for Intransitive Competition Using Properties of Circulant Matrices DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nA persistent puzzle in community ecology is how so many competing species can coexist in nature despite a naive expectation that the best competitor for shared limiting resources should win. Intransitive interaction structures have been proposed to importantly influence competitive coexistence outcomes for ecological communities. This structure involves a loop of pairwise interactions in which each species dominates over the next if the two were isolated\, but it contains no single dominant competitor for the entire system because the last species dominates the first. Intransitivity is distinctly different than “niche differentiation\,\" the key mechanism of stable competitive coexistence that ecologists focus on\, where interspecific competition is weaker than intraspecific competition. In contrast\, intransitive structures require that the dominant competitor in each interacting pair has greater interspecific competitive effects on the other than it has on itself. Despite a clear difference in mechanism\, so far\, results have suggested that communities with intransitive competition can also lead to stable coexistence for loops of an odd number\, but not for an even number\, an idea we call the “even-odd” hypothesis. Existing literature\, however\, leaves many important questions open about the general tendency towards stable coexistence generated by intransitive interactions. \n\nTo answer some of these questions\, we exploit the properties of circulant matrices. Both community interaction matrices and Jacobian matrices at the coexistence equilibrium take on this circulant structure under a Lotka-Volterra competition model with intransitive interactions of identical interaction strengths around the loop. We can understand coexistence outcomes for this system by analyzing the eigenvalues of these circulant matrices. We also carry out numerical eigenvalue analyses for non-circulant cases arising when interaction strengths vary. Overall\, we provide a more general confirmation of the even-odd hypothesis for a single isolated intransitive loop interaction structure\, but also elucidate the more complex story that arises in the contexts of additional community-wide interactions and multiple intransitive loops. UID:135795-21877271@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135795 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Graduate,Graduate Students,Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 4088 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250604T121505 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T160000 SUMMARY:Other:Virtual Information Session DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual\, hour-long info session on undergraduate programs at the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art &\; Design\, including a presentation and Q&\;A with current students and the admissions team.Info session times are Eastern US.\nVisit our Admissions Events page to learn more about additional upcoming events. UID:135994-21877635@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135994 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250317T154756 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250609T193000 SUMMARY:Other:CBT Group for Adults with Social or Performance Anxiety – Spring/Summer 2025 DESCRIPTION:Do you get anxious in anticipation of social events or performance situations? Do you find yourself worried about appearing incompetent\, weird\, weak\, unintelligent\, awkward\, or anxious to other people in such situations? Do you ruminate about how you came across even after the event is over? Do you experience heart pounding\, blushing\, shaking\, sweating\, dry throat\, or “blanking out” in these situations? Do you cope by avoiding these situations as much as you can? \n\nIf so\, our Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) group for Social Anxiety may be right for you. Hosted by our Psychological Clinic\, the group is scheduled for 6-7:30 p.m. on Mondays\, beginning April 21\, 2025. The group will run for 8 weekly 90-minute sessions\, plus a booster session one month afterward the group concludes.\n\nClinicians use evidence-based group therapy to help participants learn to identify and shift unhealthy thinking patterns. You will build coping skills and increase confidence in a supportive environment and at your own pace.\n\nDetails\n+ When: 6-7:30 p.m.\, Tuesdays.\n+ Duration: The group will meet for 8 weeks starting on April 21\, with a follow-up booster session one month after the group concludes.\n+ Cost: $45 per meeting session\, without insurance. Call for information on insurance coverage.\n+ Where: Virtual via Zoom UID:133976-21873746@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133976 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:anxiety,Faculty,Graduate,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Group Therapy,Health & Wellness,psychology,Social Anxiety,Staff,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Virtual,Well-being LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250408T135629 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Behind the Curve: Rainbows and the Science and Culture of Color DESCRIPTION:We have many significant books from the history of our understanding of rainbows and color theory\, from the writings of scholar Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham to Isaac Newton’s 1704 Opticks. Rainbows appear across the spectrum of our collections\, and this exhibit includes a handwritten illuminated manuscript\, practical color manuals of the industrial age\, contemporary artists’ and children’s books\, and more from our vast holdings. \n\nRainbows have captivated people for all of recorded history. It’s hard not to think of them as physical objects\, but they are really just distorted images of the sun\, positioned around the viewer’s head. They require someone to perceive them to exist\, and thus have much in common with colors and color theory in general. And\, like colors\, they are about relationships: of one color next to another\, and of colors and the people who see them. The rainbow has had many different cultural interpretations over the years\, and most recently has become synonymous with gay pride\, appearing all over each June.\n\nHatcher Gallery Exhibit Room Hours:\nSunday\, 2-8pm\nMonday-Thursday\, 9am-8pm\nFriday\, 9am-4pm\nSaturday\, 11am-5pm UID:134798-21875170@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134798 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room (1st floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250513T110731 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T162000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Byrne B2A2 (Back to Ann Arbor) Conference on Stochastic Analysis in Finance and Insurance DESCRIPTION:Attendance is free\, but online registration is required for all attendees who are not speakers.\n\nSpeakers\nBahman Angoshtari (University of Miami)\nShuoqing Deng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)\nArash Fahim (Florida State University)\nQi Feng (Florida State University)\nGaoyue Guo (CentraleSupélec)\nBingyan Han (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)\nYu-Jui Huang (University of Colorado\, Boulder)\nAli Kara (Florida State University)\nChristian Keller (University of Central Florida)\nDonghan Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology)\nMike Ludkovski (University of California\, Santa Barbara)\nDominykas Norgilas (North Carolina State University)\nJinniao Qiu (University of Calgary)\nRonnie Sircar (Princeton University)\nQingshuo Song (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)\nGu Wang (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)\nZhenhua Wang (Shangdong University)\nRuoyu Wu (Iowa State University)\nHao Xing (Boston University)\nSong Yao (University of Pittsburgh)\nXiang Yu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)\nXin Zhang (New York University)\nZhou Zhou (University of Sydney)\nAntonios Zitridis (The University of Chicago)\n\nVenue\nAll the talks will be held in Forum Hall Auditorium at Palmer Commons Building\, located at 100 Washtenaw Ave\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109.\n\nOrganizers\nErhan Bayraktar (University of Michigan)\nAsaf Cohen (University of Michigan)\nIbrahim Ekren (University of Michigan)\n\nAcknowledgement\nThis meeting is partially funded by the Department of Mathematics\, Jack Byrne Center for Financial Mathematics and Risk Management\, and Curtis E. Huntington Honorary fund. UID:135618-21876996@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135618 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:colloquium,Free,seminar,Talk LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250407T111911 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Carlo Vitale Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Carlo Vitale is a distinguished Michigan-based artist whose vibrant contributions to the Detroit art scene have flourished since the 1970s. A native of Detroit\, Vitale's work is celebrated as part of the second generation of the Cass Corridor Art Movement\, Detroit’s first avante garde. His art draws inspiration from the sweeping vistas of farmland seen from above\, the intricate patterns of quilt-making\, the dynamic energy of cityscapes\, and the rich tapestry of daily life. Vitale eloquently characterizes his mesmerizing oil paintings and prints as “kinetic\, metaphysical abstractions\,” inviting viewers to engage with the depth and vitality of his creative vision.\n\nVitale received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Masters of Fine Arts from Wayne State University in Detroit. His work can be found in many collections including The Whitney Museum of Fine Art in New York\, The Detroit Institute of Art\, Cranbrook Art Museum\, Wayne State University Collection\, University of Michigan Museum of Art and corporate\, hospital\, and private collections throughout the country. UID:134757-21874902@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134757 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,Visual Arts LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - NCRC Galleries CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250211T122734 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Redefining the Crown DESCRIPTION:In Winter 2025\, the Lane Hall exhibit space will feature a portraiture series titled Redefining the Crown showcasing the powerful stories of six Black breast cancer survivors.\n\nBased on a photo essay by U-M Faculty Versha Pleasant (MD/MPH) and Ava Purkiss (PhD) in Medicine at Michigan\, this exhibition examines the cultural and personal significance of hair within Black communities\, particularly through the lens of breast cancer treatment and recovery. The term \"crown\" is deeply symbolic in Black culture\, signifying beauty\, strength\, and identity. The featured photo essay by photographer Tafari Stevenson-Howard captures the intimate journeys of Ann Chatman\, Tanisha Kennedy\, Felecia McDaniel\, Shantell Elaine McCoy\, Tamara Lynn Myles\, and Veleria Banks.\n\nThrough their narratives and portraits\, the exhibit examines how these women have navigated the profound impact of hair loss caused by chemotherapy\, inviting the audience to witness their stories with radical empathy. It explores the cultural pride and personal identity intricately tied to their hair\, and how these elements are redefined amidst their battles with breast cancer.\n\nThe exhibit will be on view from January 21\, 2025 to August 8\, 2025. This exhibition is presented with support from IRWG\, the Department of Women's and Gender Studies\, and Michigan Medicine. \n\nLocated on the first floor of Lane Hall (204 S. State Street)\, the Exhibit Space is free and open to the public\, M-F\, 9am-4pm. UID:129602-21864158@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129602 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:african american,Art,institute for research on women and gender,women,Women's And Gender Studies LOCATION:Lane Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250604T104248 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T120000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Summer Institute Course - Introduction to Survey Methodology DESCRIPTION:Introduction to Survey Methodology\nJune 9-13\, 2025\n9:00am-12:00pm EDT\nLive Online via Zoom\n\nIntroduction to Survey Methodology\, a noncredit course\, covers the basic principles of survey design and methods and introduces the necessary components of a good quality survey. The course employs the Total Survey Error framework to discuss sampling frames and designs\, modes of data collection and their effects on survey errors\, the cognitive processes involved in answering survey questions and their impact on questionnaire design\, pretesting methods and post-data collection processing. The goal of the course is to give an introduction to the skills and resources needed to design and conduct a survey. \n\nThe Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques provides rigorous and high quality graduate level training in all phases of survey research. The noncredit courses are open to all. The courses are live online via Zoom. Registration and payment are required. Course fees are based on the total number of hours assigned to each course\, the hours are listed on the course description. The 2025 schedule lists additional courses. If you have any questions regarding the application process\, please use the online contact form or email the Summer Institute at isr-summer@umich.edu .\n\nThe program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design\, implementation\, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948\, and has offered such courses every summer since. The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those specializing in social and behavioral research such as professionals in business\, public health\, natural resources\, law\, medicine\, nursing\, social work\, and many other domains of study. UID:135992-21877631@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135992 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Data,Data Analysis,Data Collection,Data Curation,Data Linkage,Data Management,Data Science,Survey Methodology,Survey Methods,Survey Research LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250513T122307 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T110000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CoderSpaces - Tuesdays DESCRIPTION:Are you grappling with a piece of code\, trying to compute on a cluster\, or just getting started with a new method such as machine learning? Then we might have just the right space for you.\n\nAll members of the U-M community are invited to join our weekly virtual CoderSpaces to get research support and connect with others.\n\nTuesdays\, 9:30-11 a.m. ET\, via Zoom (Meeting ID:94181215786)\nWednesdays\, 1:30-3 p.m. ET\, via Zoom (Meeting ID: 98659357324) UID:117253-21865834@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/117253 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Data,Data Analysis,Data Collection,Data Curation,Data Linkage,Data Management,Data Science,Machine Learning,Social Science,Social Sciences LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250529T110505 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Beyond Survival DESCRIPTION:Join us for Beyond Survival\, an exhibition of works by incarcerated artists in Michigan presented by PCAP co-founder Janie Paul and the Flint Institute of the Arts. The exhibit opens May 30th and runs through September 14th. \n\nThe pieces span nearly 30 years\, many of them having been featured in our Annual Exhibition.\n\n\"Through drawings\, paintings\, and sculptures made with simple materials\, artists expose the harsh realities of incarceration while imagining life beyond prison. These works reveal a longing for home and family\, joy and beauty\, connections to nature\, flights of the imagination\, and journeys toward freedom—acts of creation made despite and in direct response to carceral conditions.\" UID:135894-21877391@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135894 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Exhibition,Incarceration LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Graphics Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250304T131847 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T163000 SUMMARY:Other:Moth Eden DESCRIPTION:Explore \"Moth Eden\,\" an evocative art exhibit by Anne Erlewine\, running from April 19 to July 6\, 2025. ‘Moth Eden’ is a series of works exploring the relationship between the sacred reverence of the female form depicted as landscape and the conditioned tension of objectification contrasted by omission through eclipsing desire with the natural essence of bloom and nectar as it pertains to moth sustenance.\n\nAnne Erlewine\, an artist from Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, cultivated her artistic talents from an early age\, inspired by her fine artist grandmother. Her creative journey was further developed at the University of Michigan\, where she studied art and writing. UID:133414-21873028@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133414 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Free,In Person,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250328T143529 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Psychological Safety in the Workplace DESCRIPTION:Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website. UID:123164-21865681@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/123164 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Communication,Leadership,Well-being LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250520T123319 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Safer Prescribing Series: Effective Conversations about Opioid Tapering and Deprescribing DESCRIPTION:Join us for our fifth Safer Prescribing Series webinar discussing strategies for having effective conversations with patients\, including how to navigate interactions relating to opioid tapering and deprescribing. UID:135742-21877215@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135742 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Medicine,Opioid,Opioid Overdose,Public Health,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240930T165802 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Parenting Through Separation & Divorce Workshop DESCRIPTION:Separation or divorce is difficult to handle in general — when children are in the mix\, it becomes that much more complex. Many parents are concerned about the well-being of their children during this time of change. The University Center for the Child and Family (UCCF) offers free Parenting Through Separation and Divorce virtual workshops each month.\n\nThis workshop delivers practical parenting advice in a collaborative\, caring environment for those going through change. We help parents understand their children’s needs during the transition and offer specific suggestions for creating the most beneficial post-divorce parenting relationships.\n\nThe link to access the online workshop is provided to participants after registration. \n\nThe program is an approved alternative to the SMILE Program by the Friend of the Court program in Washtenaw County\, Michigan.\n\nWhat to Expect:\n\n+ Practical\, actionable advice for couples going through a temporary or permanent split.\n+ A caring and collaborative environment for attendees facilitated by UCCF staff members.\n+ Guidance to help parents understand their children’s needs during what can be a tumultuous time of change and uncertainty.\n+ A certificate of participation once the workshop is over.\n\nWhile it is free\, workshop participants must register via Eventbrite. You will be provided the link once your registration is confirmed. UID:127149-21858583@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/127149 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Children,Divorce,Family,Free,parenting,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240130T121551 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism DESCRIPTION:Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison)\, this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art\, 1650-1850.\n \nIn recent times\, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections\, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries\, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works\, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.\n \nPieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet\, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden\, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  \n \nIn this online exhibition\, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery\, which will open in early 2021\, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. \n \nBy challenging our own practice\, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display\, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles\, and fails to settle for\, simple narratives. \n \n“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed\, so ornate\, so planned\, they call attention to themselves\; arrest us with intentionality and purpose\, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” \n \n— Toni Morrison\n\nLead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the U-M Arts Initiative\, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.\n  UID:84303-21621618@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,European,Exhibition,History,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - European and American Decorative Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250421T113230 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Bloody Work: Lexington and Concord 1775 DESCRIPTION:The William L. Clements Library is pleased to announce a forthcoming exhibition in recognition of the 250th Anniversary of the military hostilities that began the American Revolutionary War. The Battles of Lexington and Concord are firmly established in American memory as the culmination of a range of governmental\, political\, economic\, and social tensions that amplified in the decade leading up to 1775. In this exhibit\, visitors will have the opportunity to see original historical manuscript letters\, documents\, newspapers\, and artwork that reveal aspects of the bloody work of Empire and individual alike in April 1775.\n\nAmong the items on display will be Commander in Chief of the British Army\, General Thomas Gage's draft orders for the Concord Expedition\, April 18\, 1775\; a bundle of letters collected by former Sons of Liberty supporter Dr. Benjamin Church\, which he secretly turned over to British Army intelligence\; letters by Silas Deane\, John Hancock\, and Rachel Revere\; and much more.\n\nOpen weekdays from 12-4 pm. UID:134875-21875558@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134875 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,Ann Arbor,Exhibit,Exhibition,Free,history,libraries,Library LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250610T102018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Online Arabic Placement test_June 10\, 2025 (12pm-3pm EST) DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the Arabic Placement TestAbout the testThe test takes approximately two hours and a half in length\, and it is composed of three portions:a. The writing portion is completed via Zoom and it is worth a total of 100 points.b. The reading portion is completed online through Canvas site\, and it is worth a total of 48 points.c. Right after finishing with the reading portion\, each student will have a follow-up interview with a proctor. The interviews last approximately 15 minutes and it is worth a total of 20 points.Important: The interview portion will be weighted most heavily as it will be used to validate performance on the other two portions. The final result/score/rating will thus be based on the student’s performance on the interview above all. Rating of performance on the writing or reading portions is secondary.\nHow is the result calculated?Students who receive 60% or above will be placed in Arabic 401 and thus placed out of the LSA Language Requirement.Where can I view my results? Placement results are posted within 7 business days after taking the test. You will not be notified of your score automatically. You may view your placements via: Wolverine Access > Student Business > Academic Records > View Placement Exam Results.\nImportant information about the test* Please note that only students who are participating in the Spring/Summer orientations are eligible to take the online placement test. If you are an existing UM student\, please sign up to take the in-person placement test that is taking place in August.* Placements are valid for only one year. If you fail to register in the course that you are placed in\, you will be required to retake the test.* Retaking the placement test is only permitted after the placement results expire.* Students who are currently taking an Arabic course will not be allowed to take the placement test. * The test assesses students’ proficiency in Standard Arabic (fuSHa)\, NOT colloquial Arabic.* If you speak an Arabic dialect but you do not know how to read or write or have little knowledge\, feel free to register in Arabic 101.* Students who know some Arabic because they came from an Arabic-speaking household or have studied Arabic before\, must take the Arabic proficiency test in order to determine their placement.* Students who have taken Arabic at other institutions and wish to continue their Arabic study at UM must take the placement test to determine their level. Credits for Arabic study undertaken at another institution prior to joining UM or in a summer program while attending UM\, transfer in as generic departmental credits and students must take the placement test to determine credit equivalencies to UM courses.* If you place in or beyond the 401 level\, you will have satisfied the LSA language requirement.* Students are encouraged to take a placement test as early as possible in their studies in order to determine the level they should enroll in\, or if they test out of the language requirement. This is extremely important to avoid delays in graduation and complications with placement.* Arabic 101\, 201\, 401\, 501 or 504 are offered ONLY in the Fall semester\, and Arabic 102\, 202\, 402\, 511 are ONLY offered in the Winter semester.* Arabic 103 (the equivalent of Arabic 101 & 102\, combined) AND Arabic 203 (the equivalent of Arabic 201 & 202\, combined) are offered in the Spring-Summer terms.UM’s Arabic curriculum is a dual register curriculum in which students learn to speak and understand the Levantine dialect (the dialect of Jordan\, Syria\, Palestine and Lebanon) in addition to developing the four language skills of formal Arabic (fuSHa). If you have questions regarding the placement test\, please contact the Arabic program director at\, mesarabicprogram@umich.edu UID:135700-21877112@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135700 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Zoom-Canvas CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250604T104048 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T160000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Summer Institute Course - Designing and Writing Questions for Surveys: Guidelines and Recommendations DESCRIPTION:Designing and Writing Questions for Surveys: Guidelines and Recommendations\nJune 9-13\, 2025\n1:00pm-4:00pm EDT\nLive Online via Zoom\n\nCourse Objectives\n• Introduce a structural analysis of parts of a survey question\n• Introduce cognitive interviewing as a method for testing survey questions\n• Describe guidelines for diagnosing problems in survey questions and writing new survey questions\n• Focus on the structure and wording of survey questions\, whether for interviewer-administered or self- administered instruments\n• Provide an opportunity to apply the guidelines and principles during in-class exercises\n• Focus on improving individual questions and sets of questions.\n• Summarize research that underlies key decisions in writing survey questions.\n\nDescription\nThis workshop distills research about survey questions to principles that can be applied to write survey questions that are clear and obtain reliable answers. The workshop provides students with tools to use in diagnosing problems in survey questions and in writing their own survey questions. Sessions combine lecture with group exercises and discussion. The lecture provides guidelines for writing and revising survey questions and illustrates how to revise troubled questions. Assignments require that students analyze problematic questions\, revise them\, and administer them to fellow students. Sessions consider both questions about events and behaviors and questions about subjective phenomena (such as attitudes\, evaluations\, and internal\nstates).\n\nWho Should attend\nIndividuals who will be writing or reviewing survey questions or survey instruments or analyzing survey data. This course gives practical guidance to those who have written survey questions but who are not familiar with research on question design\, those who are just beginning to design survey instruments\, and those who use survey data but do not themselves design survey instruments.\n\nThe Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques provides rigorous and high quality graduate level training in all phases of survey research. The noncredit courses are open to all. The courses are live online via Zoom. Registration and payment are required. Course fees are based on the total number of hours assigned to each course\, the hours are listed on the course description. The 2025 schedule lists additional courses. If you have any questions regarding the application process\, please use the online contact form or email the Summer Institute at isr-summer@umich.edu .\n\nThe program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design\, implementation\, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948\, and has offered such courses every summer since. The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those UID:135993-21877627@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135993 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Data,Data Analysis,Data Collection,Data Curation,Data Linkage,Data Management,Data Science,Survey Methodology,Survey Methods,Survey Research LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241004T130515 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Understanding and Managing ADHD: Free Parent & Guardian Workshop DESCRIPTION:This free virtual workshop is designed to help parents or guardians. Your child may have received a formal diagnosis already\, or you may suspect they have ADHD or a similar learning challenge. Participants learn more about what ADHD is\, what it “looks” like in children\, how it differs from what you might expect/how it is presented in media\, and where to go from here.\n\nParticipants can expect to learn:\n+ What causes ADHD.\n+ What ADHD looks like in children.\n+ How to support a child with ADHD at home\, school\, and with friends.\n\nThis workshop includes interactive components and a Question-and-Answer session at the end. To help us better prepare and tailor the content of each workshop\, we ask participants to provide their most pressing questions in writing when they register. UID:127422-21859038@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/127422 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:adhd,Children,Free,parenting,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250527T170539 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Mechanistic Modeling of Complex Health Problems with Deep Learning DESCRIPTION:Though they show impressive empirical accuracy\, machine learning methodologies have been criticized for not producing interpretable\, scientific theories. In both clinical medicine and public health\, the researchers aim not just to predict health outcomes\, but to improve them. Hence\, causal\, human-interpretable models of nature hold particular value in these fields. In this dissertation\, I investigate how deep learning\, when integrated into scientifically-informed models and principled statistical frameworks\, can be used to advance mechanistic modeling in the health sciences.\n\nSince the widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs)\, there has been growing interest in evaluating medical interventions through large-scale observational studies of diverse patient populations. In the first chapter\, I examine the opportunities and challenges that arise from applying deep neural networks to EHR data. Despite the vast scale of EHR datasets\, black box predictive modeling has limited value for informing clinical care\, where human judgment is indispensable. Medical researchers are often interested in estimating counterfactual treatment eff ects on patients’ time-to-event outcomes. In the second chapter\, I propose the Dynamic Survival Transformer (DynST)\, a deep survival model that flexibly estimates hazards from both static and time-varying features typical of EHR data\, and demonstrate how DynST supports robust\, semiparametric inference for causal survival analysis.\n\nStochastic infectious disease models capture uncertainty in public health outcomes and off er mechanistic explanations of transmission patterns. However\, they are often nonlinear dynamical systems with massive latent state spaces\, making likelihood-based inference of model parameters difficult. In the third chapter\, I develop a methodology for efficiently calibrating large-scale stochastic epidemic simulation models to observed data using Neural Posterior Estimation. In NPE\, a neural network trained on simulated data learns to “invert” a stochastic simulator and returns a parametric approximation of the posterior distribution. I use NPE to calibrate a stochastic Susceptible-Infected model to a study of a healthcare-associated infection in a long-term acute care hospital and find evidence of spatially heterogeneous patient-to-patient transmission risk. UID:135846-21877321@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135846 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation LOCATION:West Hall - 438 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250527T143544 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T151500 SUMMARY:Presentation:Reducibility and Anosov Representations DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nIn this thesis\, we explore the framework of Anosov representations for reducible representations of a non-elementary word hyperbolic group. We give characterizations of the Anosov condition for these reducible representations in terms of the eigenvalues of the irreducible block factors of its semisimplification\, or more generally\, of the block factors of its block diagonalization. In the character variety\, these Anosov representations comprise a collection of bounded convex domains in certain finite-dimensional vector spaces\, and this perspective allows us to conclude for many non-elementary hyperbolic groups that connected components of the character variety which consist entirely of Anosov representations do not contain reducible representations. Applying these results to reducible suspensions\, we obtain explicit examples of non-Anosov limits of reducible Anosov representations. UID:135842-21877318@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135842 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Graduate,Graduate Students,Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 3096 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250610T132018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T144500 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Student Life Spotlight 2025 DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear from other colleagues who attended a conference\, training\, workshop\, or institute this past year and want to share what they learned. Whether it is new skills\, tools\, or research\, we hope to unpack all of the information we're bringing back to campus from our various development opportunities. These will be hosted in rounds of 45 minute breakout sessions\, with a break from 12pm-1pm for attendees to grab lunch on your own.This program is free for all Student Life Staff\, and a $15 charge for non Student Life attendees.This is not a formal conference event\, but you can think of it more as a \"Teachback\" opportunity! Afterward for Student Life Staff\, spend time mingling with colleagues at the Annual Student Life Celebration\, 3pm-5pm in the Michigan Union. UID:135660-21877055@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135660 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Michigan Union Wolverine Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250610T132018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T144500 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Student Life Spotlight 2025 DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear from other colleagues who attended a conference\, training\, workshop\, or institute this past year and want to share what they learned. Whether it is new skills\, tools\, or research\, we hope to unpack all of the information we're bringing back to campus from our various development opportunities. These will be hosted in rounds of 45 minute breakout sessions\, with a break from 12pm-1pm for attendees to grab lunch on your own.This program is free for all Student Life Staff\, and a $15 charge for non Student Life attendees.This is not a formal conference event\, but you can think of it more as a \"Teachback\" opportunity! Afterward for Student Life Staff\, spend time mingling with colleagues at the Annual Student Life Celebration\, 3pm-5pm in the Michigan Union. UID:135660-21877056@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135660 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Michigan Union Kuenzel Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250610T132018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T144500 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Student Life Spotlight 2025 DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear from other colleagues who attended a conference\, training\, workshop\, or institute this past year and want to share what they learned. Whether it is new skills\, tools\, or research\, we hope to unpack all of the information we're bringing back to campus from our various development opportunities. These will be hosted in rounds of 45 minute breakout sessions\, with a break from 12pm-1pm for attendees to grab lunch on your own.This program is free for all Student Life Staff\, and a $15 charge for non Student Life attendees.This is not a formal conference event\, but you can think of it more as a \"Teachback\" opportunity! Afterward for Student Life Staff\, spend time mingling with colleagues at the Annual Student Life Celebration\, 3pm-5pm in the Michigan Union. UID:135660-21877057@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135660 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Michigan Union Pond Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250521T145820 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T184500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:John Baskerville’s Virgil (1757) and the Development of the Earliest Western-Made Wove Papers DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk by Dr. Cathleen A. Baker (Conservation Librarian Emerita\, University of Michigan) and to learn about the \"Virgil wove.\" Light refreshments will be provided.\n\nMore than 10 years ago\, Baker examined the library’s copy of the first edition of John Baskerville's Virgil (Birmingham\, 1757) and became convinced that the paper she was looking at was not formed on a woven-wire screen\, as has long been assumed\, but rather on a piece of cloth secured over a single-face laid mould. She has since conducted numerous papermaking experiments using this technique and examined more than 200 copies of the book in private and public collections in the US\, UK\, Ireland\, Germany\, and Japan. UID:135774-21877251@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135774 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Classical Studies,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, 1st Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250530T142345 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T201500 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:MCSPremiere DESCRIPTION:Meet other incoming MCSP students and learn more about the program from student leaders! UID:135916-21877507@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135916 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250509T115652 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250610T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Leo Kottke DESCRIPTION:\"an American legend in the guitar world\" –Los Angeles Times \n\nAcoustic guitarist Leo Kottke was born in Athens\, Georgia\, but left town after a year and a half. Raised in 12 different states\, he absorbed a variety of musical influences as a child\, flirting with both violin and trombone\, before abandoning Stravinsky for the guitar at age 11. After adding a love for the country-blues of Mississippi John Hurt to the music of John Phillip Sousa and Preston Epps\, Kottke joined the Navy underage\, to be underwater\, and eventually lost some hearing shooting at lightbulbs in the Atlantic while serving on the USS Halfbeak\, a diesel submarine. \n\nKottke had previously entered college at the U of Missouri\, dropping out after a year to hitchhike across the country to South Carolina\, then to New London and into the Navy\, with his twelve string. \"The trip was not something I enjoyed\,\" he has said\, \"I was broke and met too many interesting people.\" Discharged in 1964\, he settled in the Twin Cities area and became a fixture at Minneapolis' Scholar Coffeehouse\, which had been home to Bob Dylan and John Koerner. He issued his 1968 recording debut LP Twelve String Blues\, recorded on a Viking quarter-inch tape recorder\, for the Scholar's tiny Oblivion label. (The label released one other LP by The Langston Hughes Memorial Eclectic Jazz Band.) \n\nAfter sending tapes to guitarist John Fahey\, Kottke was signed to Fahey's Takoma label\, releasing what has come to be called the Armadillo record. Fahey and his manager Denny Bruce soon secured a production deal for Kottke with Capitol Records. \n\nKottke's 1971 major-label debut\, \"Mudlark\,\" positioned him somewhat uneasily in the singer/songwriter vein\, despite his own wishes to remain an instrumental performer. Still\, despite arguments with label heads as well as with Bruce\, Kottke flourished during his tenure on Capitol\, as records like 1972's \"Greenhouse\" and 1973's live \"My Feet Are Smiling\" and \"Ice Water\" found him branching out with guest musicians and honing his guitar technique. \n\nHis collaboration with Phish bassist Mike Gordon\, \"Clone\,\" caught audiences' attention in 2002. Kottke and Gordon followed with a recording in the Bahamas called \"Sixty Six Steps\,\" produced by Leo's old friend and Prince producer David Z. \n\nKottke has been awarded two Grammy nominations\; a Doctorate in Music Performance by the Peck School of Music at the U of Wisconsin\, Milwaukee\; and a Certificate of Significant Achievement in Not Playing the Trombone from the U of Texas at Brownsville with Texas Southmost College. UID:133984-21873762@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133984 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved + Gold Circle CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250708T194743 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T220000 SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Michigan League: AADL Summer Game DESCRIPTION:Another location for the AADL Summer Game is the Michigan League\, home to cool study spaces\, Maizie's Kitchen & Market\, water-bottle refill stations\, Campus Information Desk (Main Floor)\, and historic displays (see Floor 3). It's also the primary office space for the Resource Navigator team\, a group of students who help undergrads & grads find the spaces\, places\, and people they need on the Ann Arbor campus.\n\n*Stop by and find the code for the Ann Arbor District Library Summer Game\; (1) first location by the Main Floor Lobby\, on the bulletin board near the Info Desk\; (2) second location right inside the South Entrance doors near the accessibility door panel! (This is the entrance for the Mendelssohn Theater. nearest Rackham.)* Participants enrolled in the Summer Game can redeem those codes for points\, badges\, and prizes awarded by the AADL. For Summer Game information and registration\, visit play.aadl.org.\n\nKnow before you go\, especially over holiday weekends and during Art Fair! Check the League's building hours at uunions.umich.edu/league/ or use the Related Links on this page. UID:136138-21877890@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136138 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Games,Outdoors LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250408T135629 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Behind the Curve: Rainbows and the Science and Culture of Color DESCRIPTION:We have many significant books from the history of our understanding of rainbows and color theory\, from the writings of scholar Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham to Isaac Newton’s 1704 Opticks. Rainbows appear across the spectrum of our collections\, and this exhibit includes a handwritten illuminated manuscript\, practical color manuals of the industrial age\, contemporary artists’ and children’s books\, and more from our vast holdings. \n\nRainbows have captivated people for all of recorded history. It’s hard not to think of them as physical objects\, but they are really just distorted images of the sun\, positioned around the viewer’s head. They require someone to perceive them to exist\, and thus have much in common with colors and color theory in general. And\, like colors\, they are about relationships: of one color next to another\, and of colors and the people who see them. The rainbow has had many different cultural interpretations over the years\, and most recently has become synonymous with gay pride\, appearing all over each June.\n\nHatcher Gallery Exhibit Room Hours:\nSunday\, 2-8pm\nMonday-Thursday\, 9am-8pm\nFriday\, 9am-4pm\nSaturday\, 11am-5pm UID:134798-21875171@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134798 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room (1st floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250513T110731 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T162000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Byrne B2A2 (Back to Ann Arbor) Conference on Stochastic Analysis in Finance and Insurance DESCRIPTION:Attendance is free\, but online registration is required for all attendees who are not speakers.\n\nSpeakers\nBahman Angoshtari (University of Miami)\nShuoqing Deng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)\nArash Fahim (Florida State University)\nQi Feng (Florida State University)\nGaoyue Guo (CentraleSupélec)\nBingyan Han (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)\nYu-Jui Huang (University of Colorado\, Boulder)\nAli Kara (Florida State University)\nChristian Keller (University of Central Florida)\nDonghan Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology)\nMike Ludkovski (University of California\, Santa Barbara)\nDominykas Norgilas (North Carolina State University)\nJinniao Qiu (University of Calgary)\nRonnie Sircar (Princeton University)\nQingshuo Song (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)\nGu Wang (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)\nZhenhua Wang (Shangdong University)\nRuoyu Wu (Iowa State University)\nHao Xing (Boston University)\nSong Yao (University of Pittsburgh)\nXiang Yu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)\nXin Zhang (New York University)\nZhou Zhou (University of Sydney)\nAntonios Zitridis (The University of Chicago)\n\nVenue\nAll the talks will be held in Forum Hall Auditorium at Palmer Commons Building\, located at 100 Washtenaw Ave\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109.\n\nOrganizers\nErhan Bayraktar (University of Michigan)\nAsaf Cohen (University of Michigan)\nIbrahim Ekren (University of Michigan)\n\nAcknowledgement\nThis meeting is partially funded by the Department of Mathematics\, Jack Byrne Center for Financial Mathematics and Risk Management\, and Curtis E. Huntington Honorary fund. UID:135618-21876997@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135618 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:colloquium,Free,seminar,Talk LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250407T111911 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Carlo Vitale Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Carlo Vitale is a distinguished Michigan-based artist whose vibrant contributions to the Detroit art scene have flourished since the 1970s. A native of Detroit\, Vitale's work is celebrated as part of the second generation of the Cass Corridor Art Movement\, Detroit’s first avante garde. His art draws inspiration from the sweeping vistas of farmland seen from above\, the intricate patterns of quilt-making\, the dynamic energy of cityscapes\, and the rich tapestry of daily life. Vitale eloquently characterizes his mesmerizing oil paintings and prints as “kinetic\, metaphysical abstractions\,” inviting viewers to engage with the depth and vitality of his creative vision.\n\nVitale received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Masters of Fine Arts from Wayne State University in Detroit. His work can be found in many collections including The Whitney Museum of Fine Art in New York\, The Detroit Institute of Art\, Cranbrook Art Museum\, Wayne State University Collection\, University of Michigan Museum of Art and corporate\, hospital\, and private collections throughout the country. UID:134757-21874903@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134757 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,Visual Arts LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - NCRC Galleries CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250211T122734 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Redefining the Crown DESCRIPTION:In Winter 2025\, the Lane Hall exhibit space will feature a portraiture series titled Redefining the Crown showcasing the powerful stories of six Black breast cancer survivors.\n\nBased on a photo essay by U-M Faculty Versha Pleasant (MD/MPH) and Ava Purkiss (PhD) in Medicine at Michigan\, this exhibition examines the cultural and personal significance of hair within Black communities\, particularly through the lens of breast cancer treatment and recovery. The term \"crown\" is deeply symbolic in Black culture\, signifying beauty\, strength\, and identity. The featured photo essay by photographer Tafari Stevenson-Howard captures the intimate journeys of Ann Chatman\, Tanisha Kennedy\, Felecia McDaniel\, Shantell Elaine McCoy\, Tamara Lynn Myles\, and Veleria Banks.\n\nThrough their narratives and portraits\, the exhibit examines how these women have navigated the profound impact of hair loss caused by chemotherapy\, inviting the audience to witness their stories with radical empathy. It explores the cultural pride and personal identity intricately tied to their hair\, and how these elements are redefined amidst their battles with breast cancer.\n\nThe exhibit will be on view from January 21\, 2025 to August 8\, 2025. This exhibition is presented with support from IRWG\, the Department of Women's and Gender Studies\, and Michigan Medicine. \n\nLocated on the first floor of Lane Hall (204 S. State Street)\, the Exhibit Space is free and open to the public\, M-F\, 9am-4pm. UID:129602-21864159@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129602 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:african american,Art,institute for research on women and gender,women,Women's And Gender Studies LOCATION:Lane Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250604T104248 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T120000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Summer Institute Course - Introduction to Survey Methodology DESCRIPTION:Introduction to Survey Methodology\nJune 9-13\, 2025\n9:00am-12:00pm EDT\nLive Online via Zoom\n\nIntroduction to Survey Methodology\, a noncredit course\, covers the basic principles of survey design and methods and introduces the necessary components of a good quality survey. The course employs the Total Survey Error framework to discuss sampling frames and designs\, modes of data collection and their effects on survey errors\, the cognitive processes involved in answering survey questions and their impact on questionnaire design\, pretesting methods and post-data collection processing. The goal of the course is to give an introduction to the skills and resources needed to design and conduct a survey. \n\nThe Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques provides rigorous and high quality graduate level training in all phases of survey research. The noncredit courses are open to all. The courses are live online via Zoom. Registration and payment are required. Course fees are based on the total number of hours assigned to each course\, the hours are listed on the course description. The 2025 schedule lists additional courses. If you have any questions regarding the application process\, please use the online contact form or email the Summer Institute at isr-summer@umich.edu .\n\nThe program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design\, implementation\, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948\, and has offered such courses every summer since. The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those specializing in social and behavioral research such as professionals in business\, public health\, natural resources\, law\, medicine\, nursing\, social work\, and many other domains of study. UID:135992-21877632@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135992 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Data,Data Analysis,Data Collection,Data Curation,Data Linkage,Data Management,Data Science,Survey Methodology,Survey Methods,Survey Research LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250529T110505 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Beyond Survival DESCRIPTION:Join us for Beyond Survival\, an exhibition of works by incarcerated artists in Michigan presented by PCAP co-founder Janie Paul and the Flint Institute of the Arts. The exhibit opens May 30th and runs through September 14th. \n\nThe pieces span nearly 30 years\, many of them having been featured in our Annual Exhibition.\n\n\"Through drawings\, paintings\, and sculptures made with simple materials\, artists expose the harsh realities of incarceration while imagining life beyond prison. These works reveal a longing for home and family\, joy and beauty\, connections to nature\, flights of the imagination\, and journeys toward freedom—acts of creation made despite and in direct response to carceral conditions.\" UID:135894-21877392@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135894 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Exhibition,Incarceration LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Graphics Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250304T131847 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T163000 SUMMARY:Other:Moth Eden DESCRIPTION:Explore \"Moth Eden\,\" an evocative art exhibit by Anne Erlewine\, running from April 19 to July 6\, 2025. ‘Moth Eden’ is a series of works exploring the relationship between the sacred reverence of the female form depicted as landscape and the conditioned tension of objectification contrasted by omission through eclipsing desire with the natural essence of bloom and nectar as it pertains to moth sustenance.\n\nAnne Erlewine\, an artist from Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, cultivated her artistic talents from an early age\, inspired by her fine artist grandmother. Her creative journey was further developed at the University of Michigan\, where she studied art and writing. UID:133414-21873029@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133414 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Free,In Person,Visual Arts LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240130T121551 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism DESCRIPTION:Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison)\, this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art\, 1650-1850.\n \nIn recent times\, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections\, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries\, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works\, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.\n \nPieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet\, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden\, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  \n \nIn this online exhibition\, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery\, which will open in early 2021\, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. \n \nBy challenging our own practice\, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display\, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles\, and fails to settle for\, simple narratives. \n \n“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed\, so ornate\, so planned\, they call attention to themselves\; arrest us with intentionality and purpose\, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” \n \n— Toni Morrison\n\nLead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the U-M Arts Initiative\, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.\n  UID:84303-21621619@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,European,Exhibition,History,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - European and American Decorative Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250421T113230 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Bloody Work: Lexington and Concord 1775 DESCRIPTION:The William L. Clements Library is pleased to announce a forthcoming exhibition in recognition of the 250th Anniversary of the military hostilities that began the American Revolutionary War. The Battles of Lexington and Concord are firmly established in American memory as the culmination of a range of governmental\, political\, economic\, and social tensions that amplified in the decade leading up to 1775. In this exhibit\, visitors will have the opportunity to see original historical manuscript letters\, documents\, newspapers\, and artwork that reveal aspects of the bloody work of Empire and individual alike in April 1775.\n\nAmong the items on display will be Commander in Chief of the British Army\, General Thomas Gage's draft orders for the Concord Expedition\, April 18\, 1775\; a bundle of letters collected by former Sons of Liberty supporter Dr. Benjamin Church\, which he secretly turned over to British Army intelligence\; letters by Silas Deane\, John Hancock\, and Rachel Revere\; and much more.\n\nOpen weekdays from 12-4 pm. UID:134875-21875559@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134875 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,Ann Arbor,Exhibit,Exhibition,Free,history,libraries,Library LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250611T112019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Online Arabic Placement test_June 11\, 2025 (12pm-3pm EST) DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the Arabic Placement TestAbout the testThe test takes approximately two hours and a half in length\, and it is composed of three portions:a. The writing portion is completed via Zoom and it is worth a total of 100 points.b. The reading portion is completed online through Canvas site\, and it is worth a total of 48 points.c. Right after finishing with the reading portion\, each student will have a follow-up interview with a proctor. The interviews last approximately 15 minutes and it is worth a total of 20 points.Important: The interview portion will be weighted most heavily as it will be used to validate performance on the other two portions. The final result/score/rating will thus be based on the student’s performance on the interview above all. Rating of performance on the writing or reading portions is secondary.\nHow is the result calculated?Students who receive 60% or above will be placed in Arabic 401 and thus placed out of the LSA Language Requirement.Where can I view my results? Placement results are posted within 7 business days after taking the test. You will not be notified of your score automatically. You may view your placements via: Wolverine Access > Student Business > Academic Records > View Placement Exam Results.\nImportant information about the test* Please note that only students who are participating in the Spring/Summer orientations are eligible to take the online placement test. If you are an existing UM student\, please sign up to take the in-person placement test that is taking place in August.* Placements are valid for only one year. If you fail to register in the course that you are placed in\, you will be required to retake the test.* Retaking the placement test is only permitted after the placement results expire.* Students who are currently taking an Arabic course will not be allowed to take the placement test. * The test assesses students’ proficiency in Standard Arabic (fuSHa)\, NOT colloquial Arabic.* If you speak an Arabic dialect but you do not know how to read or write or have little knowledge\, feel free to register in Arabic 101.* Students who know some Arabic because they came from an Arabic-speaking household or have studied Arabic before\, must take the Arabic proficiency test in order to determine their placement.* Students who have taken Arabic at other institutions and wish to continue their Arabic study at UM must take the placement test to determine their level. Credits for Arabic study undertaken at another institution prior to joining UM or in a summer program while attending UM\, transfer in as generic departmental credits and students must take the placement test to determine credit equivalencies to UM courses.* If you place in or beyond the 401 level\, you will have satisfied the LSA language requirement.* Students are encouraged to take a placement test as early as possible in their studies in order to determine the level they should enroll in\, or if they test out of the language requirement. This is extremely important to avoid delays in graduation and complications with placement.* Arabic 101\, 201\, 401\, 501 or 504 are offered ONLY in the Fall semester\, and Arabic 102\, 202\, 402\, 511 are ONLY offered in the Winter semester.* Arabic 103 (the equivalent of Arabic 101 & 102\, combined) AND Arabic 203 (the equivalent of Arabic 201 & 202\, combined) are offered in the Spring-Summer terms.UM’s Arabic curriculum is a dual register curriculum in which students learn to speak and understand the Levantine dialect (the dialect of Jordan\, Syria\, Palestine and Lebanon) in addition to developing the four language skills of formal Arabic (fuSHa). If you have questions regarding the placement test\, please contact the Arabic program director at\, mesarabicprogram@umich.edu UID:136027-21877706@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136027 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Zoom/Canvas CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250604T104048 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T160000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Summer Institute Course - Designing and Writing Questions for Surveys: Guidelines and Recommendations DESCRIPTION:Designing and Writing Questions for Surveys: Guidelines and Recommendations\nJune 9-13\, 2025\n1:00pm-4:00pm EDT\nLive Online via Zoom\n\nCourse Objectives\n• Introduce a structural analysis of parts of a survey question\n• Introduce cognitive interviewing as a method for testing survey questions\n• Describe guidelines for diagnosing problems in survey questions and writing new survey questions\n• Focus on the structure and wording of survey questions\, whether for interviewer-administered or self- administered instruments\n• Provide an opportunity to apply the guidelines and principles during in-class exercises\n• Focus on improving individual questions and sets of questions.\n• Summarize research that underlies key decisions in writing survey questions.\n\nDescription\nThis workshop distills research about survey questions to principles that can be applied to write survey questions that are clear and obtain reliable answers. The workshop provides students with tools to use in diagnosing problems in survey questions and in writing their own survey questions. Sessions combine lecture with group exercises and discussion. The lecture provides guidelines for writing and revising survey questions and illustrates how to revise troubled questions. Assignments require that students analyze problematic questions\, revise them\, and administer them to fellow students. Sessions consider both questions about events and behaviors and questions about subjective phenomena (such as attitudes\, evaluations\, and internal\nstates).\n\nWho Should attend\nIndividuals who will be writing or reviewing survey questions or survey instruments or analyzing survey data. This course gives practical guidance to those who have written survey questions but who are not familiar with research on question design\, those who are just beginning to design survey instruments\, and those who use survey data but do not themselves design survey instruments.\n\nThe Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques provides rigorous and high quality graduate level training in all phases of survey research. The noncredit courses are open to all. The courses are live online via Zoom. Registration and payment are required. Course fees are based on the total number of hours assigned to each course\, the hours are listed on the course description. The 2025 schedule lists additional courses. If you have any questions regarding the application process\, please use the online contact form or email the Summer Institute at isr-summer@umich.edu .\n\nThe program teaches state-of-the-art practice and theory in the design\, implementation\, and analysis of surveys. The Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques has presented courses on the sample survey since the summer of 1948\, and has offered such courses every summer since. The Summer Institute uses the sample survey as the basic instrument for the scientific measurement of human activity. It presents sample survey methods in courses designed to meet the educational needs of those UID:135993-21877628@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135993 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Data,Data Analysis,Data Collection,Data Curation,Data Linkage,Data Management,Data Science,Survey Methodology,Survey Methods,Survey Research LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250606T114813 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T130000 SUMMARY:Presentation:UK Scholarships: Summer Online Session DESCRIPTION:ONSF supports several UK scholarships and fellowships that pay for 2-4 years of fully-funded graduate study and are recognized as some of the most prestigious awards an undergraduate or recent alum can receive. If you're interested in applying or have questions\, please join this information session! It will go over the basics of applying\, and there will be an opportunity to ask questions after. \n\nSome of the scholarships that will be covered during this info session include:\n\nThe Rhodes Scholarship: Fully funds 2-4 years of graduate study at Oxford University in any field.\nThe Marshall Scholarship: Provides full cost of attendance for 1-3 years of graduate study at any institution in the UK.\nThe Churchill Scholarship: Funds one year of graduate research and study in a STEM field at the University of Cambridge. UID:136024-21877705@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136024 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fellowships & Grants,International,Onsf,Scholarships LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250102T120705 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CoderSpaces - Wednesday DESCRIPTION:Are you grappling with a piece of code\, trying to compute on a cluster\, or just getting started with a new method such as machine learning? Then we might have just the right space for you.\n\nAll members of the U-M community are invited to join our weekly virtual CoderSpaces to get research support and connect with others.\n\nTuesdays\, 9:30-11 a.m. ET\, via Zoom (Meeting ID:94181215786)\nWednesdays\, 1:30-3 p.m. ET\, via Zoom (Meeting ID: 98659357324) UID:117252-21865887@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/117252 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Data,Data Analysis,Data Collection,Data Curation,Data Linkage,Data Management,Data Science,Information and Technology,Machine Learning LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250604T091326 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:\"The Neotropical Miocene biome of La Venta (Colombia)\" DESCRIPTION:The La Venta deposits in Colombia are one of the most fossil-rich regions in tropical South America and offer an exceptional opportunity to study the effect of the Miocene climatic changes and the evolution of extinct and extant clades in a low-latitude ecosystem. Land and freshwater vertebrates\, and less commonly plants and invertebrates\, constitute most of the La Venta fossils. The mammal record has been studied for nearly a century and has been used to define the Laventan Age/Stage c. 13.5-11.8 million years old. Recently\, Colombian and international researchers have joined collection and research efforts\, resulting in the establishment of a new La Venta natural history museum (Museo de Historia Natural La Tatacoa). This new wave of paleontological and geological studies has provided an improved stratigraphy of La Venta and new paleobiological and evolutionary hypotheses of several vertebrate groups\, and in the museum’s educational and outreach activities. This talk will review the paleontological knowledge of La Venta\, identify knowledge gaps\, and discuss future research directions. A century after the first paleontological expedition\, La Venta’s fossil record continues to illuminate the evolution of the South American tropical biodiversity during the Miocene. UID:135989-21877622@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135989 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum - Zoology,Museum Of Paleontology,Paleontology,Research Museums Center LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250507T120233 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T180000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Founder's Day Ice Cream Social DESCRIPTION:Join the staff of the Clements Library for an ice cream sundae bar on our south plaza. Guests are invited to view our current exhibit\, Bloody Work: Lexington & Concord 1775\, take swag\, and play yard games!\n\nNo registration required\, see you there! UID:135499-21876889@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135499 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american history,Ann Arbor,Children,Exhibit,Exhibition,Family,Free,Fun,Games,history,In Person,libraries,Library,Outdoors,Social LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250611T180019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T210000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Bujinkan Budo Training Session DESCRIPTION:During the Spring/Summer 2025 semester\, Bujinkan Budo Club training will be held on Wednesdays from 19:00 - 21:00 (7-9pm) at the Intramural Sports Building (IMSB) in Room MPR B. If you are interested in trying out a class\, please send a message through Maize Pages or an email to michiganbujinkan@gmail.com. \n--\nFor more information\, email us at michiganbujinkan@gmail.com or checkout our website\, which also includes a training schedule! UID:135720-21877175@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135720 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Intramural Sports Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250212T095832 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Manoomin – The Good Berry DESCRIPTION:Manoomin\, or wild rice\, is native to the rivers and lakes of northern Michigan and is an integral plant both economically and culturally. As part of the 2025 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, Frank Zomer will discuss the importance of manoomin to Anishinaabe people\, the history of manoomin in Michigan\, reasons for its loss/decline across the state\, and where we are now. He’ll provide many examples specific to his work as Inland Fisheries Biologist for the Bay Mills Indian Community and also talk generally about trends across the state.\n\nZomer leads the manoomin restoration program for the tribe. He also is active in the restoration of manoomin statewide as the co-chair of the Michigan Wild Rice Initiative which brings together all 12 Michigan Tribes and state and federal agencies to promote and protect manoomin in Michigan. Frank enjoys spending time outdoors in Michigan’s beautiful Upper Peninsula with his wife and three children.\n\nThe U-M Biological Station — the largest of U-M's campuses at more than 10\,000 forested acres surrounded by lakes — is one of the nation's largest and longest continuously operating field research stations.\n\nFounded in 1909\, the Biological Station supports long-term research and education. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so our community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays from 7 to 8 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge. UID:132662-21871522@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132662 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Biology,Biosciences,Bsbsigns LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250509T115601 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250611T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Fantastic Cat DESCRIPTION:“The Traveling Wilburys of smart indie pop” –Glide Magazine\n\nFantastic Cat almost died. Each member also individually (but at separate times) faced devastating heartbreak\, went to jail\, got sober\, almost quit music entirely\, reconnected with a long-estranged family member\, started making music again\, hit rock bottom\, had a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger who changed their perspective on life\, almost quit music entirely a second time\, reconciled their progressive\, liberal ways with their strict\, conservative upbringing\, and embraced the raw power of their sexuality. It was quite a summer.\n \nAnd sure\, you may be reading this right now saying\, “Wow\, that kind of sounds like the band just basically jammed every album bio cliché they could think of into a single paragraph without anything to back it up in a pathetically transparent attempt to generate press coverage.” But that kind of cynical thinking is exactly why GQ owns Pitchfork now (or whatever the hell happened there). Anyway\, it’s all real\, and if it makes for the kind of inspirational headline that editors and advertisers alike both find highly clickable\, then so be it.\n \nYou see\, two years ago\, Fantastic Cat was nothing more than a little-known rock band with a cult following (their fans were primarily members of Heaven’s Gate). That all changed with the release of their award-eligible debut\, The Very Best Of Fantastic Cat\, which garnered the kind of press you simply can’t make up. USA Today proclaimed\, “We don’t have a music writer anymore\,” while NPR received multiple copies of the album in the mail\, and The New York Times’ Jon Pareles declared\, “I’m currently out of the office and will respond when I return.”\n \nIndividually\, each member of Fantastic Cat boasts their own impressive resume along with a litany of critical acclaim. Paste declared Don DiLego’s latest album a “stunner.” NPR said Anthony D’Amato “sings and writes in the tradition of Bruce Springsteen or Josh Ritter.” Rolling Stone called Brian Dunne’s new record “the sleeper album of the year” and praised Mike Montali’s band\, Hollis Brown\, as “the soundtrack for a late-night drive through the American heartland.” Collectively\, though\, the four transcend their respective roots\, emerging as velvet-clad rock and roll cooperative far greater than the sum of its parts. \n \nToday\, Fantastic Cat is back and older than ever\, taking America by storm with their newest album\, Now That’s What I Call Fantastic Cat.\n\nWith Meaghan Farrell! UID:132028-21869809@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132028 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250613T162529 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250804T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Davy Knowles DESCRIPTION:“He’s definitely the gunslinger guitarist of the 21st century” –Peter Frampton\n\nWhether playing mandolin\, national steel\, or screaming electric guitar\, Davy Knowles has an unmistakable style. Since bursting onto the scene with his band Back Door Slam’s critically acclaimed album “Roll Away” in 2007\, Davy’s star has only risen. His sophomore release “Coming Up For Air'' was produced by the legendary Peter Frampton\, with subsequent tours seeing him supporting and sharing the stage with acts such as Jeff Beck\, The Who\, Brian Setzer\, and George Thorogood.\n\nKnowles has several top-5 Billboard Blues charting albums under his belt\, high profile TV appearances (Jimmy Kimmel Live and CBS Good Morning America among others)\, and has been praised with high accolades from heroes and press alike.\n\nWhether spending an evening onstage armed with just an acoustic guitar\, or wielding his well worn and trusty Telecaster while fronting his blues/rock trio - and at any point in between the two - Davy Knowles is a versatile and formidable songwriter and musician. UID:136040-21877718@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136040 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250613T162320 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250907T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Shemekia Copeland DESCRIPTION:“The greatest blues singer of her generation” —Washington Post\n\nShemekia Copeland possesses one of the most instantly recognizable and deeply soulful roots music voices of our time. The multi-GRAMMY nominee is beloved and honored worldwide for the fearlessness\, honesty and humor of her revelatory songs\, as well as for her winning\, engaging personality. The Chicago Tribune says\, “Copeland is the greatest female blues vocalist working today. There’s no mistaking the majesty of her instrument\, nor the ferocity of her delivery.”\n\n On Copeland’s new album\, Blame It On Eve\, the songs all hit hard\, with jaw-dropping performances that instantly take hold and command repeated listening. “There’s serious business on the new album\,” Copeland says\, “but there are a lot of smiles here too\, a lot of joyous moments. It’s my blues for sure but it’s the brighter side. Issues are always important to me\, but so is rocking\, dancing and just having fun. And that’s something we all can all agree on.”\n\nWith Blame It On Eve\, Copeland embarks on what she calls “a vacation from all the heaviness.” Blame It On Eve contains plenty of Copeland’s trademark bold and courageous songs\, but here Copeland is also looking to unplug from the weight of the world. “My last three records have dealt with breaking news\,” she says. “This record is for people like me who want a break from the news.” UID:136045-21877723@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136045 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250613T161854 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250909T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Socks in the Frying Pan DESCRIPTION:“They wrap traditional Irish tunes in modern garments and spice them up with driving grooves” –Folkworld\n\nSocks in the Frying Pan\, a multi-award-winning trio from Ennis\, County Clare\, Ireland—the mecca of Irish traditional music—was formed in 2014. Forged together by a fire of pure joy and passion for their art\, the band comprises Aodan Coyne on guitar and lead vocals\, Shane Hayes on accordion\, and younger brother Fiachra Hayes on fiddle. \n\nTheir 'Socks Sound' combines virtuosic musicianship with a burning passion for the music and tradition\, pitch-perfect harmonies\, and a big splash of quick wit and banter. Their electrifying performances and on-stage charm have established them as the kingpins on the Irish Traditional Music scene today. UID:136041-21877719@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136041 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250618T105408 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250910T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Katie Pruitt: Time Wasn't Wasted Tour DESCRIPTION:Time Wasn’t Wasted Tour\n\nKatie Pruitt is living proof of music’s power to transform the way we experience the world. Soon after the arrival of her acclaimed debut Expectations—a 2020 LP on which she documented her journey in growing up queer in the Christian South—the Georgia-bred singer / songwriter / guitarist heard from countless listeners that her songs had impacted their lives on an elemental level. With her sophomore album Mantras\, the Nashville-based musician now looks inward to explore such matters as gender identity\, self-compassion or the lack thereof\, and the struggle for peace in times of chaos and uncertainty—ultimately arriving at a body of work that speaks to the strength in undoing harmful self-beliefs and fully living your truth.\n\nMainly produced by Collin Pastore and Jake Finch (both known for their work with boygenius and Lucy Dacus)\, Mantras delves deeper into the empathetic storytelling and incisive self-examination that defined Expectations—an album that earned Pruitt a nomination for Emerging Artist of the Year from the Americana Music Association\, in addition to drawing praise from major outlets like Rolling Stone and Pitchfork. This time around\, Pruitt sets her lived-in lyricism to a folk-leaning sound informed by her love for the more experimental edges of indie-rock\, stacking her songs with plenty of propulsive grooves and overdriven guitars.\n\nLooking over the tracklist to Mantras\, Pruitt notes that a certain narrative thread emerged without her intention. “I didn’t realize it at the time\, but the throughline for this record ended up being my own personal journey of letting go and learning how to love myself again—it begins with tension\, frustration\, and fear and resolves to a place of acceptance\, surrender\, and stillness\,” she says. “I hope when people hear the record they feel what I felt after writing it\, which was a sense of trusting myself and trusting that—no matter how bad things look—there’s always hope where there’s fear. I know that so much of the time we feel alone in our pain\, so hopefully these songs help everyone to see that they can work through those big life changes and end up loving themselves a lot more.” UID:136044-21877722@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136044 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250613T162605 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251001T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:American Aquarium DESCRIPTION:No description is provided. \nPlease visit https://mutotix.umich.edu/5858/5859 for more detail. UID:136043-21877721@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136043 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250613T162129 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251012T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Shawn Phillips DESCRIPTION:“The best kept secret in the music business” –Bill Graham\n\nThe man who taught Joni Mitchell her first guitar techniques\, who also taught George Harrison of the Beatles his first lessons on Sitar\, the man who wrote the music to Donovan’s “Season Of The Witch” and has played with many of the finest musicians in the world including Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood. He’s produced 27 albums and is known around the world for his refusal to bow down to commercialism in the music industry.\n\nHe has done what many singer/songwriters don’t do\, which is to continue to evolve his creative skills in his concerts. When he comes into a venue\, he brings the sounds of an entire Symphony Orchestra in real time and plays the songs so many love as close as possible to what was recorded on the albums. All in real time! All solo! UID:136042-21877720@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136042 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR